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slug-a-bed

slug-a-bed is the alternative form of slugabed.

Meaning of slugabed

Noun

slugabed (plural slugabeds)

  1. A lazy person who lies in bed after the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.
    • Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]

Forms of slug-a-bed

pluralslug-a-beds

Questions about slug-a-bed

What is slug-a-bed the alternative form of?
Slug-a-bed is the alternative form of slugabed.

Words near slug-a-bed in the dictionary

  1. slug moths
  2. slug out
  3. slug slime
  4. slug snail
  5. slug snails
  6. slug-a-bed
  7. slug-a-beds
  8. slug-horn
  9. slug-horns
  10. slugabed
  11. slugabeds

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