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sluggabed

sluggabed 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 sluggabed

pluralsluggabeds

Questions about sluggabed

What is sluggabed the alternative form of?
Sluggabed is the alternative form of slugabed.

Words near sluggabed in the dictionary

  1. slugburger
  2. slugburgers
  3. slugfest
  4. slugfests
  5. slugga
  6. sluggabed
  7. sluggabeds
  8. sluggable
  9. sluggard
  10. sluggardise
  11. sluggardised

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