vago

adj.

1 footloose, errant, roving, shiftless.

2 nebulous, amorphous, formless, shapeless.

3 vague, general, unspecific.

4 rambling, excursive.

f. & m.

1 bum, loafer, deadbeat, good-for-nothing.

2 vagus.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: vagar.

* * *

vago

► adjetivo

1 (impreciso) vague

■ idea vaga vague idea

————————

vago

► adjetivo

1 (vacío) empty; (desocupado) vacant

2 (holgazán) lazy, idle

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 (holgazán) idler, layabout, slacker

2 DERECHO vagrant

■ ley de vagos y maleantes vagrancy act

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

hacer el vago to laze around

* * *

1. (f. - vaga)

adj.

1) idle, lazy

2) vague

2. (f. - vaga)

noun

idler

* * *

vago, -a

1. ADJ

1) (gen) vague; (Arte, Fot) blurred, ill-defined; (=indeterminado) indeterminate

2) [persona] (=perezoso) lazy, slack; (=poco fiable) unreliable; (=ocioso) idle, unemployed

- ser más vago que la chaqueta de un guardia

3) [ojo] lazy; [objeto] idle, unused; [espacio] empty

4) (=errante) roving, wandering

5) †

en vago — [mantenerse] unsteadily; [esforzarse] in vain

dar golpes en vago — to flail about, beat the air

2. SM/ F

1) (=holgazán) idler, lazybones *; (=inútil) useless individual, dead loss

hacer el vago — to loaf around

2) (=vagabundo) tramp, vagrant, bum (EEUU); (=pobre) down-and-out

* * *

I

-ga adjetivo

1) (fam) <persona> lazy, idle

2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; <explicación> vague

un vago parecido — a vague resemblance

II

-ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)

deja ya de hacer el vago — stop lazing around (colloq)

* * *

I

-ga adjetivo

1) (fam) <persona> lazy, idle

2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; <explicación> vague

un vago parecido — a vague resemblance

II

-ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)

deja ya de hacer el vago — stop lazing around (colloq)

* * *

vago¹

¹ = slacker, bum, lazybones, layabout, idler.

Ex: The article is entitled 'No slackers here: SLA's youngest members have the vision and enthusiasm to shape the profession'.

Ex: Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.

Ex: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.

Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.

Ex: This magazine prints essays and stories that celebrate the joyful life of an idler.

* persona vaga y mal vestida = slob.

vago²

² = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], feeble, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], wooly [woolier -comp., wooliest -sup.], indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous.

Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.

Ex: This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.

Ex: Some of the terms are vague.

Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.

Ex: Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.

Ex: On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.

Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.

Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.

Ex: The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.

* de manera vaga = hazily.

* * *

vago¹ -ga

adjective

A (fam); ‹persona› lazy, idle

B ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy; ‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct

hay un vago parecido entre los dos there is a vague resemblance between them

me dio una explicación muy vaga de lo que había sucedido she gave me a very vague explanation of what had happened, she only explained very vaguely what had happened

tengo la vaga sensación de haberlo visto antes I have a vague feeling I've seen him before

vago² -ga

masculine, feminine

(fam)

layabout, slacker (colloq)

deja ya de hacer el vago y ponte a trabajar stop lazing around and get some work done (colloq)

* * *

 

Del verbo vagar: (conjugate vagar)

vago es:

1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

vagó es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

Multiple Entries:
vagar    
vago
vagar (conjugate vagar) verbo intransitivo
to wander, roam
vago

◊ -ga adjetivo

1 (fam) ‹persona› lazy, idle
2 ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy;
‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct;
‹explicación/parecido› vague
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq);

◊ deja ya de hacer el vago stop lazing around (colloq)

vagar vi (ir sin rumbo fijo) to wander, roam: vagamos por la ciudad toda la noche, we wandered around the town all night long
vagaba por el desierto, he was wandering about in the desert
vago,-a
I adjetivo
1 pey (holgazán) lazy
2 (difuso) slight, vague: tiene una vaga idea de lo que ocurrió, he has a vague idea of what happened
II m,f (gandul) layabout
'vago' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
boluda
- boludo
- floja
- flojo
- sambenito
- señorito
- vaga
- hecho
- indeterminado
English:
bone-idle
- dim
- do-nothing
- easy-going
- faint
- hazy
- indistinct
- layabout
- obscure
- screw around
- slack
- slob
- swan about
- swan around
- vague
- work shy
- bum
- wooly

* * *

vago, -a

♦ adj

1. [persona] lazy, idle;

Comp

Fam Hum

ser más vago que la chaqueta de un guardia to be bone-idle

2. [imagen, recuerdo] vague

3. Med

nervio vago vagus nerve

♦ nm,f

lazy person, idler;

ser un vago to be lazy o idle

♦ nm

hacer el vago to laze around

* * *

vago

I adj

1 (holgazán) lazy;

hacer el vago laze around

2 (indefinido) vague

II m, vaga f idler, Br

layabout fam

* * *

vago, -ga adj

1) : vague

2) perezoso: lazy, idle

vago, -ga n

1) : idler, loafer

2) vagabundo: vagrant, bum

* * *

vago¹ adj

1. (gandul) lazy [comp. lazier; superl. laziest]

mi hermana es muy vaga my sister is very lazy

2. (impreciso) vague

tengo una vaga idea I've got a vague idea

vago² n lazybones