Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who indulges in lying late in bed; a
sluggard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour
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Examples
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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.
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This one jumped in fully formed as I was lying slugabed and wishing for a real spring.
Tew's Day! amberfox 2009
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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 jimhines 2010
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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.
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"Past nine o'clock, slugabed," her cousin replied.
An Unacceptable Offer Balogh, Mary 1988
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The slugabed skipped the fest in Deauville, France.
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The slugabed skipped the fest in Deauville, France.
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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 2011
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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 2011
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There's every reason to fret and fume, so start your fuming, you slugabed!
ImpeachBush 2010
esotericwench commented on the word slugabed
This word has such a great sound to it!
August 17, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word slugabed
"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
September 25, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word slugabed
Melds sluggard + abed ("in bed").
September 25, 2009