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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who indulges in lying late in bed; a sluggard.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour

Examples

  • “This one jumped in fully formed as I was lying slugabed and wishing for a real spring.”

    Tew's Day!

  • “Harriet has been kicked out of her French lover's Greenwich Village apartment on the fairly reasonable basis that she is an acid-tongued slugabed who does nothing but sit around watching quiz shows and insulting his friends.”

    The Guardian: After Claude by Iris Owens – review

  • “The other books in the first contract did much better not fast enough not to cost me that 30% and the books on the next contract did even better than that, so at this point the only slugabed in the group is #1 on the first contract.”

    Why Advances Matter

  • “Though the three of us, especially my wife the slugabed, deserve a huge amount of credit for actually getting up with the alarm and being out the door by 5:30, we were so far off in our estimation of how to see this event that dopeslaps are in order all the way around.”

    Missed It By *THAT* Much

  • “Past nine o'clock, slugabed," her cousin replied.”

    An Unacceptable Offer

  • “Neither, as it turned out, had he ever actually heard the programme himself, being an habitual slugabed who always slept through it.”

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

  • “The slugabed skipped the fest in Deauville, France.”

    TIME.com: Top Stories

  • “There's every reason to fret and fume, so start your fuming, you slugabed!”

    ImpeachBush

  • “T ethoxyethane of posterior is one oceania, but that it spectacularly spiff for clear rehabilitative euro is a unbordered slugabed in the picariae of comprehensible fount.”

    Rational Review

  • “The lady came to the chamber as first she might and finding Ruggieri asleep, nudged him and bade him in a low voice arise, but to no effect, for he replied not neither stirred anywhit; whereat she was somewhat vexed and nudged him more sharply, saying, 'Get up, slugabed!”

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

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  • hernesheir Melds sluggard + abed ("in bed"). Sep 25, 2009

  • hernesheir "Let even the slug-abed snail upon the thorn
    Put forth a conscious horn!"
    Francis Thompson(1859-1907) From the Night of Forebeing. Ode to Easter Sep 25, 2009

  • esotericwench This word has such a great sound to it! Aug 17, 2008

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