sluggard
🇬🇧 UK/'slʌgәd/🇺🇸 US
GREC2
Definitions
n.
A habitually lazy, idle, or slow-moving person
懒汉,游手好闲的人
🧩 Root Breakdown
Native Englishslugother
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gconnector
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ardone who (often pejorative)
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Common Collocations
- 1.idle sluggard游手好闲的懒汉
- 2.[hopeless sluggard]无可救药的懒汉
- 3.[call someone a sluggard]骂某人是懒汉
- 4.[sluggard's ways]懒散的习性
Example Sentences
- 1.
The old proverb warns that a sluggard will never taste the fruits of success.
- 2.
His father called him a sluggard for sleeping past noon every day.