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noun
1.
a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
adjective
2.
lazy; sluggardly.
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Sluggard
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sluggard
late 14c. (implied in sluggardly), from M.E. sluggi "sluggish, indolent," probably from a Scand. word, cf. dialectal Norw. and Sw. slugga "be sluggish," dialectal Norw. sluggje "heavy, slow person."
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