sluggard
31slug — slug1 sluglike, adj. /slug/, n., v., slugged, slugging. n. 1. any of various snaillike terrestrial gastropods having no shell or only a rudimentary one, feeding on plants and a pest of leafy garden crops. 2. a nudibranch. 3. a metal disk used as… …
32sluggardly — sluggardliness, n. /slug euhrd lee/, adj. like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy. [1860 65; SLUGGARD + LY] * * * …
33slug — 1. noun /slʌɡ/ a) Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell b) A lazy person, a sluggard. See Also …
34Proverbs 6 — 1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come… …
35loafer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. idler, lounger, vagrant, bum (sl.). See inactivity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. idler, lounger, lazy person, ne er do well, good for nothing, lazybones, sluggard, malingerer, waster, wastrel, slacker,… …
36slouch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. droop, flag, slump, sag, bend; shamble, shuffle, lounge, loll. See slowness, inaction, depression. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bungler, incompetent, bumbler, sluggard; see failure 2 . • no slouch, Syn.… …
37faineant — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I adjective Resistant to exertion and activity: idle, indolent, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish. Informal: do nothing. Idiom: bone lazy. See ACTION, INDUSTRIOUS. II noun A self indulgent person who spends time …
38slug — {{11}}slug (1) shell less land snail, 1704, originally lazy person (early 15c.); related to SLUGGARD (Cf. sluggard). {{12}}slug (2) lead bit, 1620s, perhaps a special use of SLUG (Cf. slug) (1) with reference to its shape. Meaning token or… …
39sluggish — mid 15c., from M.E. slugge lazy person (see SLUGGARD (Cf. sluggard)). Earlier adj. was sluggi (early 13c.) …
40do-nothing — n 1. idler, faineant, loafer, drone, Inf. bum, sluggard, slugabed, lazybones; laggard, loiterer, lounger, lingerer, trifler, dawdler, dallier; day dreamer, lotus eater; shirker, goldbrick, Sl. goof off; good for nothing, ne er do well, Fr.… …
