Old-fashioned a lazy person who stays in bed when he or she should be up
Origin of slugabed
from Middle English sluggen (see sluggard) + bedslugabed
slug·a·bedWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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slugabed
noun
One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.
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