sprawler

1 7.4

A person who sits or lies with arms and legs spread out

noun
/ˈsprɔːlər/

: desparramador

That hammy sprawler keeps the rest of us from doing our specialties.

Examples

First was posture: lizards and reptiles were bent-legged sprawlers, hugging the ground for warmth.

Fiction book (1990)
During the movie, he lay on the couch as a true sprawler, taking up most of the space with his arms and legs stretched wide.
On lazy Sunday afternoons, I often see my dog becoming a sprawler, sprawled out on the sunny living room floor.
At the picnic, my friends were all sprawlers, lounging comfortably on the grass with their limbs casually extended.

Synonyms

lounger

vssprawler

1 5.8

A person who often rests and does very little

lies or sits with arms and legs spread out rather than just being idle

Antonyms

neat-freak

Informal

7 7.9

A person who likes to keep things very clean and tidy

How Spread Out

sprawler

1 7.4

sloucher

1 7.7

sitter

2 4.1

Surface Forms

sprawler singular

sprawlers plural

Morphology

sprawler = sprawl (transparent) = sprawl + er

Direct agentive formation from the verb 'sprawl' with the productive English suffix '-er', yielding 'one who sprawls'.

Etymology

Sprawler comes from the verb sprawl, meaning 'to spread out', with the ending -er that makes it 'a person who'. Picture someone lying on a sofa like a starfish with arms and legs all over the place — that's a sprawler, someone who takes up space.