sluggard
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of sluggard
First recorded in 1350–1400, sluggard is from the Middle English word slogarde. See slug 1, -ard
Explanation
Do you know anyone lazy or slothful? Then you know a sluggard: an idle or sluggish person. If you know that sluggish means slow-moving, then you have a clue to the meaning of sluggard. A sluggard is a lazy, sleepy, slow-moving person. A sluggard is likely to oversleep and even snooze through class or work. If you're alert and hard-working, no one will ever call you a sluggard or a slug. Being a sluggard is a great way to fail a class, lose a job, or just fall behind in general.
Vocabulary lists containing sluggard
Oedipus the King
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Example Sentences
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Besides "Joy and Pleasure", "Money", "Truly Great", "The Sluggard", "The Best Friend" and of course "Leisure", was a poem I'd never read before: "School's Out".
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010
‘All others are up and doing. Come, Master Sluggard, and look at this place while you may!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“If the scheme,” he says, “which I set forth in these pages is not applicable to the Thief, the Harlot, the Drunkard, and the Sluggard, it may as well be dismissed without ceremony.”
From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)
If Booth would take the trouble to read Mr. Havelock Ellis’s book on Criminals, not to mention more recondite ^ works, he would see that the Sluggard and the Thief are first cousins.
From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Sluggard, The, 46, 67, 68; Study for, illus.,
From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Rhys, Ernest
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