slang. [Of obscure formation.] An idler. Doing quisby, not working.
1837. Fraser’s Mag., XVI. 155. He eyes the twaddler who’d enjoin a halt,… Hating … a stop by such a quisby.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 219. One morning, when we had been doing ‘quisby,’ that is, stopping idle.
