sluggard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a habitually lazy or idle person, especially one slow to begin necessary work

   The proverb rebukes the sluggard who sleeps while others prepare for winter.

From Middle English slogarde, formed from slug in its older sense 'a lazy or slow person' + the pejorative agent suffix -ard. The same family produced sluggish; the word has remained chiefly literary and strongly disapproving.

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