slug-a-bed

But the witch-wife was standing over her and crying out: Thou art late, slug-a-bed, this fair-weather day, and the grass all spoiling for lack of the scythe.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

“I am no wife for you, a clumsy lout, a slug-a-bed, God forgive me!”

The Witch, and other stories 2004

"In fact" — she grinned cheekily at him — "the last one to the rock and up to the very top of it is a shameful slug-a-bed."

One Night for Love Balogh, Mary 1999

Poor soundproofing he decided, and Mary must be entertaining callers-in which case he should not be slug-a-bed.

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

Poor soundproofing he decided, and Mary must be entertaining callers-in which case he should not be slug-a-bed.

Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958

"Now, slug-a-bed," he said, "you have ten minutes for your breakfast, then you will foot it to the Hall and see whether Sir Willoughby has returned or is expected."

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

Making the sun his alarm clock, he prolonged the slug-a-bed luxury.

Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

But Troy, on all save market mornings, is a slug-a-bed town; and even at nine o'clock, when he issued forth after an impatient breakfast, the streets wore an unkempt, unready, unsociable air.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The Count cried disdainfully that I was a slug-a-bed.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

"I am no wife for you, a clumsy lout, a slug-a-bed, God forgive me!"

The Witch and other stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882