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Definition: Slugabed |
SlugabedNoun1. A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Slugabed \Slug"a*bed`\, noun. One who indulges in lying abed; sluggard.. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SlugabedSynonym: lie-abed (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "slugabed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjumash (sleeper, sleepful, sleepyhead, slumbery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugabedslay dorminhoco (drowsy-head, lie-a-bed, sleeper, sleepy, sleepyhead). (various references) puturos (fetid, niffy, nifty, putrid, stinking). (various references) соня (dormouse, lie-abed, sleeper, sleepyhead, slug-abed, slumberer). (various references) koji se izležava, dandguba. (various references) dormilón (sleepyhead). (various references) sjusovare (dormouse, lie-abed). (various references) yataktan çıkmayan kimse, çok uyuyan kimse. (various references) сплюх, любитель поспати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "slugabed": slugabeds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: beglads, belauds, belugas. | |
-2 letters: abused, badges, bagels, beglad, belaud, belgas, beluga, blades, budges, bugled, bugles, bulged, bulges, daubes, debugs, gabled, gables, glades, sludge, suable, usable. | |
-3 letters: ables, abuse, agues, badge, bagel, balds, baled, bales, based, bauds, beads, beaus, belga, blade, blase, blued, blues, budge, bugle, bulge, bused, dales, daube, daubs, deals, debug, degas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: slugabeds. | |
+5 letters: battlegrounds, undiagnosable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 75 67 61 62 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. ..- --. .- -... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01110101 01100111 01100001 01100010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l u g a b e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0075 0067 0061 0062 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378877367687170 |
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