Today's Word "slugabed"
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slugabed \SLUHG-uh-bed\ (noun) - One who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard.
"Perhaps he would lie slugabed till the household had departed for the procession, then get up late. Creep around unobtrusively, lie in the sun with the castle cats." -- Lois McMaster Bujold, 'The Curse of Chalion'
Slugabed is from slug, "sluggard" + abed, "in bed."
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