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we have one - who SAYS he's very good at everything - and he is - until there is anything that actually needs doing.


I call him 'Lazyboy'. Other names I've heard include 'Snake'


I wouldn't actually mind, but when he pretends he's done something (very vocally to the boss) and no one else has, everyone else gets into trouble for not having done it. When no ones actually done anything. But by then, he's scored points and the attention has moved on.


Nasty piece of work.

this is a portmanteau word describing someone in the way? when I was clumsy or couldn't do something well or properly (as a child) so that she would give me something different to do which she believed was within my capability, my Granny used to tell me I was a 'hindrance.'


I think we need bigger and better clues.


Is this an obscure/obsolete/old fashioned word, is it regional/dialect, is there a prize?

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