Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
Wiktionary
- n. One who indulges in lying late in bed; a sluggard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
WordNet 3.0
- 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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“Past nine o'clock, slugabed," her cousin replied.”
“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.”
“There's every reason to fret and fume, so start your fuming, you slugabed!”
“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.”
“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!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slugabed’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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words that just sound funny
maybe it's just me but these words are fun to say or make me laugh or smile
monangahela, sisyphus, schlub, sassafrass, lollapalooza, mulligrubs, hoity-toity, hashmagandy, zenzizenzizenzic, addlepated, nincompoop, brouhaha and 3 more...
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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TEN DOLLAR WORDS
brouhaha, foofaraw, ruckus, slumgullion, snollygoster, slangwhanger, slugabed, hodgepodge, rapscallion, muckamuck, hornswoggle, sockdolager and 5 more...
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Uncommon and Interesting words
That come in handy, but might make you look like a douchebag.
prurient, lithe, superannuated, wanderlust, sanguine, florid, slugabed, candor, eldritch, superbowl syndrome, indolent, perforce and 37 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 1999
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
emolument, palindrome, deprecate, bivouac, umbrage, incipient, dapple, pugnacious, capitulate, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious and 229 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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xyzprincess's Words
crabwise, virtu, peripatetic, idyll, trencherman, equivocate, flummery, hoi polloi, pixilated, albatross, wangle, bodacious and 170 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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Bedaphors
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very
sleepyhypnagogic, chronotherapy, clinomania, condorm, librocubicularist, matutolypea, soporific, supine, decubitus, pandiculation, oscitancy, slugabed and 169 more...
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 127 more...
Tweets
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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