sluggard

4 definitions found

sluggard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sluggard \Slug"gard\, n. [Slug + -ard.]
     A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
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           Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be
           wise.                                    --Prov. vi. 6.
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  Sluggard \Slug"gard\, a.
     Sluggish; lazy. --Dryden.
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sluggard - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sluggard
      n 1: an idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug]

sluggard - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "sluggard":
     bum, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler,
     dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant,
     foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker,
     goof-off, idler, laggard, lazybones, lie-abed, lingerer, loafer,
     loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper,
     plodder, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, shirker, sleepyhead,
     slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug,
     slugabed, snail, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster,
     tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence