English edit

Etymology edit

couch potato +‎ -ey

Adjective edit

couch-potatoey (comparative more couch-potatoey, superlative most couch-potatoey)

  1. Like a couch potato; sedentary.
    • 2004, Kathleen LeBesco, Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, page 107:
      Judging from the on-line discussion of these types of events both before and after, the fat site users aren't just a damp bunch of pasty-skinned computer geeks whose only light is the flicker of their monitors; they're as physically active and bold (and, of course, sometimes as couch-potatoey and mild) as they are online.
    • 2006, Maximum Rocknroll:
      The question is, why has mass media been so watered down and why do couch-potatoey people buy it?
    • 2013, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, An Epidemic of Absence:
      Now imagine moving those sheep into a parasite-free apartment in London—into clean, well-fed, couch-potatoey modernity.