On holiday, you might suppress the urge to seize the day. Instead, you sink deeper into the sheets, disappearing under the duvet like the moon behind a cloud. By all appearances, you are doing nothing. But, quite the opposite: You are hurkle-durkling.

Hurkle-durkling is not a cutesy term generated by artificial intelligence or the travel PR machine. It’s a 19th-century Scottish word that the Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines as “to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up”. The practice is experiencing a resurgence: a calming antidote to the frenzy of travel, a finger to the lips – shhh – to the clamour outside your hotel door.

Washington Post