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Definition of Slugabed
1. Noun. A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour.
Definition of Slugabed
1. n. One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
Definition of Slugabed
1. Noun. One who indulges in lying late in bed; a sluggard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slugabed
1. one inclined to stay in bed out of laziness [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slugabed
Literary usage of Slugabed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
""Slow" is chiefly used with "up." Antonyms: see QUICKEN. sluggard, n. slug (rare
or archaic), do- little (colloq.), drone (fig.), slugabed (archaic) ..."
2. A New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages: In Two Parts by Thomas Nugent, J. Ouiseau (1830)
"(shot,) boulet coupé slugabed, Sluggard, dormeur, se. Sluggish, a. pesen!, с.lent,
с. Sluggishly, ad. en fainéant Sluggishness, s. pesanteur, paresse, f. ..."
3. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... French pisse-en-lit, dandelion; runaway, also runagate (the latter whereof
also mingles with renegade); slugabed; ..."
4. The Song of the Plow: Being the English Chronicle by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1916)
"And what of Lackland, slugabed, That sold his kingdom to the Pope? 175 Little
enough when all is said: Trust him to hang, with enough rope. ..."
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