idle, adjective

In the obsolete noun phrase Idle Dick (or Idle Jack): a nickname for the grassbird Sphenoeacus afer of the Sylviidae; Lazy Dick, see lazy.
1884 Layard & Sharpe Birds of S. Afr. 281It (sc. Sphenoeacus afer)..will suffer itself to be taken with the hand rather than rise again; for this reason it has acquired the name of Idle Jack or Lazy Dick.
1893 A. Newton Dict. of Birds 458Idle Jack, a local name in the Cape Colony for Sphenoeacus africanus (Grass-bird).
1901 Stark & Sclater Birds of S. Afr. II. 168Sphenoeacus natalensis, Natal Grass-Bird..‘Idle Dick’ and ‘Lazy Dick’ of English Colonists.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 223Idle Dick or Lazy Jack, Sphenœcicus natalensis. The common names of this bird in Natal.
In the obsolete noun phrase Idle Dick (or Idle Jack):a nickname for the grassbird Sphenoeacus afer of the Sylviidae; Lazy Dick, see lazy.
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