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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLUG'GARD, n. [from slug and ard, slow kind.] A person habitually lazy, idle and inactive; a drone.
SLUG'GARD, a. Sluggish; lazy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English sluggart Date: 14th century a habitually lazy person II. adjective Date: 1557 sluggardly • sluggardness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a lazy sluggish person. Derivatives: sluggardly adv. sluggardliness n. Etymology: ME f. slug (v.) be slothful (prob. f. Scand.: cf. SLUG(1)) + -ARD

Webster's 1913 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sluggard Slug"gard, a. Sluggish; lazy. --Dryden.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

slug'-ard: Found only in the Old Testament, and there only in Proverbs. It is the rendering given the word 'atsel everywhere in the Revised Version (British and American), but in the King James Version only in Pr 6:6,9; 10:26; 13:4; 20:4; 26:16 (elsewhere the King James Version translates by "slothful"). The root meaning of ['atsel] is "to be sluggish," "stupid." The English word "slug" is said to be "allied to slack" (Webster).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Drone, lounger, idler, laggard, slug. II. a. Sluggish, lazy.

Moby Thesaurus

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