Brewer's: Fever-lurk

A corruption of Feverlurg, as “Fever-lurgan” is of Fever-lurdan. The disease of laziness.

Fever-lurk, Neither play nor work.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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