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SLUGGARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sluggard mean? 

SLUGGARD (noun)
  The noun SLUGGARD has 1 sense:

1. an idle slothful personplay

  Familiarity information: SLUGGARD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLUGGARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An idle slothful person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

slug; sluggard

Hypernyms ("sluggard" is a kind of...):

bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer (person who does no work)

Derivation:

slug (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)


 Context examples 


When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: “Get up, you sluggards! we are going into the forest to fetch wood.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)



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