Thursday, January 02, 2003

Word

Fitting that this was Dictionary.com's Word of the Day for January 1. I was a big slugabed that day.

slugabed \SLUHG-uh-bed\, noun:
One who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard.

Nemecek's business is not for slugabeds. He opens for business every weekday at 4 a.m.
--Drew Fetherston, "He Can Really Make Pigs Fly," Newsday, December 12, 1994

I found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slugabed.
--W. Hurton, Doomed Ship

All save Whit elected to sleep in that morning. Whit came back to report that he had spotted the tracks of a doe and a fawn made in the new snow directly beneath my unoccupied stand, and I regretted being a slugabed.
--"Paying Tribute to Deer in Minnesota Woods," New York Times, December 6, 1998

Slugabed is from slug, "sluggard" + abed, "in bed."


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