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An idle slothful person
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sluggard
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluggard \Slug"gard\, n. [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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., late 13c. as a surname, "habitually lazy person," from Middle English sluggi "sluggish, indolent," probably from a Scandinavian word such as dialectal Norwegian slugga "be sluggish," dialectal Norwegian sluggje "heavy, slow person," dialectal ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is lazy, stupid, or idle by habit. 2 A person slow to begin necessary work, a slothful person. 3 A fearful or cowardly person, a poltroon.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an idle slothful person [syn: slug ]
Usage examples of sluggard.
Mohammed the dragoman, by birth and education a thief, by nature a sluggard, spared no effort to reach Cairo in the shortest space of time humanly possible.
The Sluggards were not the only race the Heechee had found with some of such things, but they were by all odds the most promising.
The best thing was to come back when the Sluggards had had time to discover the messages, get over the initial shock, and respond.
As with everything else the Sluggards did, their emotions were hopelessly slow.
They took their specially armored spacecraft and dived it down into the dense, frigid, damaging gases of the Sluggard planet in order to visit the Sluggards on their home turf.
Heechee to communicate with Sluggards as it is for us stored persons to get into any meaningful real-time relationship with meat people.
I had a lot more fits of agitation and depression when I thought of the gang of them, out there in their kugelblitz, ready at any time to come out and do to us what they had done to the Sluggards and the starwisp people and the ones buried under the ice.
I had seen it once before, when it was in its glory, and then it had carried a crew of Sluggards on an exploration trip to some other star.
General Cassata, that the Sluggards are not the only aliens of whom specimens are present here.
Heechee became half human, humans began to look like Heechee, and they blurred into computer constructs and Sluggards and Voodoo Pigs and into things that bore no resemblance at all to anything the universe had ever known .
The relative sizes of the Assassins and the Sluggards are well established.
I think neither the creatures that nearly destroyed the Sluggards nor the creatures that the Voodoo Pigs keep depicting were actually space travelers.
I put the strongest in the rear, with orders to quicken the pace of the sluggards with the points of their bayonets in the back.
I could hear it in my sluggard slumbrousness struggling at the bound rudder, gulping sloppy noises of hogs' chops guttling beneath the sheer of the poop.