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.