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