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Definition of slugabed in English: slugabednounˈslʌɡəbɛdˈsləɡəˌbed North American archaic A lazy person who stays in bed late. Example sentencesExamples - I'm hoping to get a few more from lollygaggers and slugabeds.
- I was awake at 6: 00 a.m. while the hardened slugabeds wanted to sleep the day away.
- Give it a read if you're interested in what a foreigner thought of English stage coaches and slugabed habits.
- This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester.
- The sun is out and shining, and you are lying in bed like a lazy little slugabed.
Synonyms idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, wastrel, drone, scrounger, cadger, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, laggard, malingerer
Origin Late 16th century: from the rare verb slug 'be lazy or slow' + abed. Definition of slugabed in US English: slugabednounˈsləɡəˌbed North American archaic A lazy person who stays in bed late. Example sentencesExamples - I was awake at 6: 00 a.m. while the hardened slugabeds wanted to sleep the day away.
- Give it a read if you're interested in what a foreigner thought of English stage coaches and slugabed habits.
- This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester.
- The sun is out and shining, and you are lying in bed like a lazy little slugabed.
- I'm hoping to get a few more from lollygaggers and slugabeds.
Synonyms idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, wastrel, drone, scrounger, cadger, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, laggard, malingerer
Origin Late 16th century: from the rare verb slug ‘be lazy or slow’ + abed. |