underbusy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
underbusy (comparative more underbusy, superlative most underbusy)
- Insufficiently busy; not having enough to do.
- 1947, Collier's - Volume 119, page 40:
- A Stomper is one who became overberried and underbusy through no toil of his or her own.
- 1979, Jake Logan, Dead Man's Hand, →ISBN, page 185:
- A crowd of underbusy men waited among the shacks near Hickok's.
- 1980, Georgetown Dental Journal - Volumes 44-45, page 3:
- A probable oversupply of dentists— when many, many practitioners are underbusy!