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sluggard, n. and a.|ˈslʌgəd|
Forms: α. 5–6 slogard(e, 5–6 sloggarde. β. 5 sluggarde, 6 slougarde, slugerd, 6– sluggard; Sc. 5, 7 sluggart, 6 slug(g)ird.
[f. slug v.1 + -ard.]
A. n.
a. One who is naturally or habitually slow, lazy, or idle; one who is disinclined for work or exertion of any kind; a slothful or indolent person.
α1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. viii. (Bodl. MS.), Also scharpenes of winter makeþ men slogardes and slowe to worching. a1500Chester Pl. viii. 297 Such dotards never shall, ne no sleeping slogard, make my right title cease! a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 249 b, If thei be slogardes and geuen to slothe.
β1423Jas. I Kingis Q. lviii, Sluggart, for schame! lo here thy goldin houre. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlvi. 86 Luve makis sluggirdis fresche and weill besene. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 27, I runne not lyke a slougarde, as they are wonte to doe which hasten to no certayn marke at al. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 251 Least your delayes gett you the report of a sluggarde or idle lubber. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 4 But it is the part of an industrious man, to act their affaires in the world, tho sluggards lie by the fire. 1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. (1687) 358 This is the effect of the Sermon which that Excellent Man made to Drones and Sluggards. 1738Wesley ‘Let us go forth, 'tis God commands’ ii, If any now to Work refuse, Let not the Sluggard eat. 1819Cobbett Eng. Gram. viii. (1847) 72 Read it early, while your mind is clear, and while sluggards are snoring. 1877M. A. Barker Housek. S. Africa iv, Our garden is precisely in the condition of the sluggard, gate and all.
transf.1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith iii. iii. 143 Even light..is but a sluggard when compared to thought.
Comb.1706A. Philips Past. iv. (1710) 16 He that late lies down, as late will rise, And, Sluggard-like, till Noon-day snoring lyes. 1892J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 301 Harvest, however, came at length, lagging on a-pace, sweet and sluggard-wise. 1910W. De Morgan Affair of Dishonour vii. 87 That he should, simply from an idle indulgence of laziness, lie sluggard-wise till near mid-day.
†b. spec. A sloth. Obs. rare.
See also potto 1, quot. 1705.
1668Charleton Onomast. 16 Ai, sive Ignavus, the Sluggard. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 294 The sluggard, or sloth, likewise has hands.
B. adj. Sluggish, slothful, lazy.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 84 Awake thou sluggard Maiestie, thou sleepest. 1593― Lucr. 1278 The more to blame my sluggard negligence. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. i. 177 For sprightly May commands our Youth to keep The Vigils of her Night, and breaks their sluggard Sleep. 1867R. Palmer Life P. Howard 25 The still more dreadful lukewarmness that hag-rode the sluggard orders. 1874Wilberforce Essays II. 113 The old sluggard slumberers of the last generation.
Hence ˈsluggarding vbl. n., the practice of playing the sluggard.
1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. xiv. (1873) VI. 112 By slumbering and sluggarding over their money tills. |