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, 1994I found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slugabed.-- W. Hurton, Doomed ShipAll 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, 1998Slugabed is from slug, "sluggard" + abed, "in bed."

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