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slug-a-bed|ˈslʌgəbɛd|
Also 7, 9 sluggabed, 9 slugabed.
[f. slug v.1 1 + abed adv.]
One who lies long in bed through laziness.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. v. 2 Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you sluggabed. 1648Herrick Hesp., Corinna's going a Maying, Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The Dew-bespangling Herbe and Tree. 1692L'Estrange Fables ccclii. (1694) 367 But these People are Hearing Causes too, with our Slug-a-bed in the Apologue. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Slug-a-bed, a drone, one that cannot rise in the morning. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 90 Thomson, who was a notorious slug-a-bed, is peculiarly eloquent on the subject of early rising. 1897W. Hurton Doomed Ship xxii, I found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slug-a-bed.
attrib.1683Tryon Way to Health 289 Many ordinary Country People..have nothing the trouble at such times as our fine lazy sluggabed-Dames. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 42 Even the slug-abed snail upon the thorn. |