Slugabed

Quick meaning: Slugabed is a noun meaning A lazy person who lies in bed after the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.

Meaning

A lazy person who lies in bed after the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.

Example Sentences

You men have had baths, while Aunt Hilda and I haven't had a chance to get clean for fear of waking you slugabeds.

[O]n rising one morning, I entered the cabin, and found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slug-a-bed, […]

Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]

Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.

Word Forms

• slugabeds
• sluggabed
• slugabug

Synonyms for slugabed

Depending on context, synonyms include dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught, do-nothing, dosser.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lie-abed, sluggabed, slug-a-bed, lier, sluggard, slug.

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