Word of the Day

Tuesday, June 22, 1999

slugabed

\SLUHG-uh-bed\ , noun;

One who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard.

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Quotes:

Nemecek's business is not for slugabeds. He opens for business every weekday at 4 a.m.

-- Drew Fetherston, "He Can Really Make Pigs Fly", Newsday, December 12, 1994

I found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slugabed.

-- W. Hurton, Doomed Ship

All save Whit elected to sleep in that morning. Whit came back to report that he had spotted the tracks of a doe and a fawn made in the new snow directly beneath my unoccupied stand, and I regretted being a slugabed.

-- "Paying Tribute to Deer in Minnesota Woods", New York Times, December 6, 1998

Origin:

Slugabed is from slug, "sluggard" + abed, "in bed."