Sluggard

Definition: Sluggard

Sluggard

Noun

1. An idle slothful person.

Date "sluggard" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Synonym: Sluggard

Synonym: slug (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.
Slowness	Slow goer, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail; poke; dawdle; (inactive).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sluggard

English words defined with "sluggard": -art ♦ Sluggardy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sluggard": Misnomers. (references)

Etymologies containing "sluggard": slugabed. (references)

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Franklin	Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Isaac Watts	'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
Samuel Johnson	Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In our eyes, cenobites are not idlers, nor is the recluse a sluggard.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sluggard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sluggard" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sluggard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përtac (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, good for nothing, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slacker, slothful, snail, sundowner, swabber, truant, twiddler), dembel (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, drone, faineant, floppy, idle, Idler, lazy, lazybones, lazy-boots, lotus eater, slacker, work-shy). (various references)

Arabic		‏كسل (drowse, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothful, sluggishness), ‏كسول (dull, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, passive, shiftless, slothful, slow, sluggardly, sluggish, supine), ‏الكسلان (idle, slug). (various references)

Bulgarian		мързелан (lazybones, slug), ленивец (lazybones, lotus eater, sloth, tardigrade). (various references)

Czech		lenoch (backrest, Idler, lazybones, lazy-bones). (various references)

Farsi		تنبل وکند, ادم تنبل . (various references)

Finnish		vetelys, nahjus (drifter, laggard), kuhnus. (various references)

French		paresseux (sloth, slothful, slug, sluggish), indolent (slack, slothful). (various references)

German		Faulpelz (Idler, lazybones, slacker), Faulenzer (bums, Idler, layabout, lazybones, loiterer, lounger, sluggards), faul (addled, bad, decayed, dubious, dud, feeble, fishy, flimsy, foul, idle, idly, indolent, laggard, lame, lazily, lazy, off, phoney, phony, putrid, rotten, rottenly, slothful, sluggardly, sluggish, sluggishly, sorry, suspicious, uneasy). (various references)

Greek		τεμπέλησ (dawdler, lazy, lazybones, loafer, poke, shote, slacker), οκνηρόσ (idle, lazy, otiose, shiftless). (various references)

Hebrew		עצלן (lazy, lazybones, slacker, sloth), עצל (idle, indolent, lazy, slothful, sluggish), זחלן (dawdler, flunkey, toady). (various references)

Hungarian		semmittevő (dawdling, drone, idler, layabout, lounger, skulk, slug), rest (inert, languid, slothful, sluggish), lusta (idle, indolent, laggard, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggish, tardy). (various references)

Indonesian		pemalas (idler, loon), pelalai. (various references)

Italian		poltrone (Idler, lazybones, lie-abed, loiterer, lounger). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		薄ら馬鹿 (dimwit, simpleton). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うすらばか (dimwit, simpleton). (various references)

Manx		litcher (drone, idler, latecomer, lazybones), chea ny hobbyr (dodger, loafer), cadlag (dormouse, gunnel, hibernator; butterfish, sleeper). (various references)

Pig Latin		uggardslay

Portuguese		vadio (apache, bohemian, bummer, cadger, gadder, highbinder, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, landlouper, lazy, loafer, loon, lounger, peddlar, ranger, rowdy, ruffian, runabout, scourer, slothful, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, woodward), preguiçoso (chair warmer, dawdler, laggard, lazy, lazy guy, lie-a-bed, loafer, loller, lubberly, otiose, remiss, slack, slacker, slothful, sluggish, work-shy), mandrião (lazy, scalawag, scallywag, shirker, slothful, slouch, slug). (various references)

Romanian		trândav (easeful, idle, inactive, lazy, sluggish, truant, vacant), tembel (nut, slacker, slothful, sluggish), leneş (bum, dull, easeful, easy going, idle, Idler, idly, lazily, lazy, lazybones, loafer, loiterer, otiose, shiftless, slothful, sluggish, torpid, truant, vacant). (various references)

Russian		лентяй (bummer, do-nothing, faineant, lazybones, lazy-bones, poke, slacker, slob, slug, slug-abed, truant, wag, work-shy). (various references)

Scottish		lunndair (a sluggard, idler, indolent person, lazy), leisgean (lazy person). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lenjivac (sloth), dembel. (various references)

Spanish		haragán (drone, Idler, loafer, lounger, slob, truant). (various references)

Swedish		slöfock (drone, dullard, slacker, slouch, slowcoach, slowpoke, vegetable), latmask (dawdler, layabout, lazy dog, lazybones, slacker). (various references)

Thai		คนขี้เกียจ (คำโบรา�"), ขี้เกียจ (laze away, otiose, slothful, sluggish). (various references)

Turkish		uykucu (a great sleeper, sleeper, slumberous), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), miskin (lazy, shiftless, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slowcoach, sluggish, squalid). (various references)

Ukrainian		лежебока, ледар (bum, bummer, dawdle, dawdler, lazybones, lounger, poke, quitter, slow, wag). (various references)

Vietnamese		người chậm chạp lười biếng, lười biếng (indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy). (various references)

Welsh		diogyn (idler, lazy one). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle English	1100-1500	sluggi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Iqi proV ton murmhka w oknhre kai zhlwson idwn taV odouV autou kai genou ekeinou sofwteroV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Vade ad formicam o piger et considera vias eius et disce sapientiam
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Go to the anpte, O! thou slowe; and behold the weies of it, and lerne wisdam.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 6
Cebuano	¶ Umadto ka sa olmigas, ikaw nga tapulan; Palandunga ang iyang mga dalan, ug pagmaalamon:
Chinese	懶惰人 �"� 、 � 去察看螞蟻的動作、就可得智慧．
Croatian	Idi k mravu, lijenèino, promatraj njegove pute i budi mudar:
Danish	Gå hen til Myren, du lade, se dens Færd og bliv viis.
Dutch	Ga tot de mier, gij luiaard! zie haar wegen, en word wijs;
Finnish	Mene, laiska, muurahaisen tykö, katso sen menoja ja viisastu.
French	Va vers la fourmi, paresseux; Considère ses voies, et deviens sage.
German	Gehe hin zur Ameise, du Fauler; siehe ihre Weise an und lerne!
Haitian Creole	¶ Ou menm parese, al pran leson nan men foumi yo. Ale wè jan y'ap viv pou ou manyè konprann lavi.
Hungarian	Eredj a hangyához, te rest, nézd meg az õ útait, és légy bölcs!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang yang malas harus memperhatikan cara hidup semut dan belajar daripadanya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Pergilah belajar kepada semut, hai pemalas; perhatikanlah kelakuannya dan jadilah bijaksana.
Italian	V� dalla formica, o pigro, guarda le sue abitudini e diventa saggio.
Maori	¶ Haere ki te popokorua, e te tangata mangere, matakitakina iho ona ara, kia nui ai ou whakaaro:
Norwegian	Gå til mauren, du late, se dens ferd og bli vis!
Rumanian	Du-te la furnicq, lenewule; uitq-te cu bqgare de seamq la cqile ei, wi knyelepyewte-te!
Russian	рПК�"Й Л НХТБЧША, МЕОЙЧЕ�", � ПУНПФТЙ ОБ �"ЕКУФЧЙС ЕЗП, Й �'Х�"Ш НХ�"ТЩН.
Spanish	Ve a la hormiga, oh perezoso; observa sus caminos y sé sabio.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sluggard": sluggardly, sluggardness, sluggardnesses, sluggards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sluggard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saluggia, Shugart. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-g-l-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: gradus, guards, gulags.
	-3 letters: argus, drags, drugs, duals, dural, duras, gauds, gaurs, glads, glugs, grads, guard, guars, gulag, gular, lards, lauds, rugal, sugar, sural.
	-4 letters: auld, dags, dals, drag, drug, dual, dugs, dura, gads, gags, gals, gars, gaud, gaur, glad, glug, grad, guar, guls, lads, lags, lard, lars, laud, lugs, rads, rags, ruga.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-g-l-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: sluggards.
	+2 letters: sluggardly.
	+4 letters: sluggardness, sparkplugged.
	+5 letters: gelandesprung.
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