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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sluggard \Slug"gard\, noun [Slug + -ard.] A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. --Prov. vi. 6.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sluggard \Slug"gard\, adjective Sluggish; lazy. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sluggard
noun: an idle slothful person [syn: {slug}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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