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Slug-abed (A)

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A late riser.

“The buttercup is no slug-abed.”—Notes and Queries (Aug. 11, 1894, p. 1118, col. 2).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Slop (Dr.)
Slops (The)
Slopard (Dame)
Slope
Slough of Despond
Slow
Slow Coach
Slubber-Degullion
Slug-abed (A)
Slumland
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Sly Dog
Sly as a Fox
Slyme (Chevy)
Small
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