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
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From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Harding, Emily J.
Why did his son, Hugh Capet himself, wait, for his election as king, until Louis the Sluggard was dead, and the Carlovingian line had only a collateral and discredited representative?
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
"Truly," said the knight, "Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst, men call me in these parts the Black Knight,—many, sir, add to it the epithet of Sluggard, whereby I am no way ambitious to be distinguished."
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
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