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# sluggard

«sluggard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very lazy person who does not want to work or get up** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sluggard, sluggards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old, Bible) A sluggard is a very lazy person who does not want to work or get up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#m1)

2) (humorous) Sluggard can be used jokingly for someone who sleeps late or moves slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Pupils meet it in the Bible's Book of Proverbs: «Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise» — the ant works hard and prepares, so we should too. In stories and joking talk, a sluggard lies in bed while others work. Phrases: «go to the ant, thou sluggard».

### examples

- «Go to the ant, you sluggard,» says the proverb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x1)
- Get out of bed, you sluggard! (joking) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x2)
- The sluggard's garden was full of weeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x3)
- The fable shows the hard-working ant and the sluggard grasshopper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x4)
- Proverbs warns that the sluggard will go hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x5)
- He was no sluggard; he worked from dawn to dusk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x6)
- His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/#x7)

### note

Old-fashioned; today people say «lazybones» or «slacker». Related: «sluggish» (slow, without energy), «slug» (a slow, slimy animal). A sluggard is a person, not an animal.

### In the corpora

- [The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the sluggard».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/4/)
- [Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.146/)
- [How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.149/)
- [As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.284/)
- [The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be abundantly gratified.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.353/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sluggard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.