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inactive person

NOUN
couch potato
Synonyms
WEAK
TV viewer bystander drone goof-off idler laggard lazy person lazybones loafer lotuseater lounger observer slouch sluggard sofa spud spectator televiewer television viewer video-gazer viewer

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We more than suspect that it is really derived from a vulgar, compound epithet, used by Dutch seamen to denote an awkward, clumsily-formed, inactive person.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 by William Chambers

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