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Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Slugabed’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary
Slugabed
Noun
Definition: (chiefly North American or archaic)
A lazy person who stays in bed late.
Example:
• I was awake at 6: 00 am while the hardened slugabeds wanted to sleep the day away.
• I’m hoping to get a few more from lollygaggers and slugabeds.
• This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester.
Origin: Late 16th century: from the rare verb slug ‘be lazy or slow’.
Published in Dawn, Young World, February 13th, 2015
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