Reverse Dictionary: SLUGGARD

ADJECTIVES
► CAVING slow, sluggish → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD-LIVERED dead-alive; stupid, dull, sluggish → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DESIDIOSE idle, slothful, lazy, sluggish, indolent → 1727 obs.
► DESIDIOUS idle, lazy, indolent, slothful, negligent, sluggish → a1540 obs.
► DOPEY sluggish or befuddled from or as from the use of narcotics or alcohol → 1895 Amer.
► DRONISH living on another’s labour; indolent, sluggish → L16
► DRONY sluggish → L18
► DUMMEL stupid, foolish; slow, sluggish → 1790 Eng. dial.
► FAINT avoiding exertion, shirking, lazy, sluggish → c1325 obs.
► IGNAVE slow, sluggish → 1657 obs.
► INERGETICAL without energy; sluggish, inactive → L17 obs.
► JACENT lying; recumbent; fig. sluggish → 1611 obs.
► KEEADISH sluggish; unwilling, disinclined → 1901 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAG lingering or lagging behind; tardy, sluggish, slow, backward → 1726 Sc.
► LARBAL lazy, sluggish → 1825 Sc. obs.
► LATCHIE ► LATCHY slow, sluggish, tardy, dilatory → 1922 Sc.
► LATESOME late; backward; slow, sluggish; tiresome, tedious → a1382 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial. usage
► LEMSE stiff or halting in one’s movements, slow, sluggish, sloppy → 1928 Sc.
​► LENT slow, sluggish; esp. said of a fire, a fever → a1400 obs.
► LENTITUDINOUS slow, tardy, sluggish → 1801
► LETSOME slow, tardy, sluggish → 1647 obs.
► LOGGISH heavy, sluggish → 1642 obs.
► LOGY heavy, slow, lethargic, sluggish → 1848 Amer. dial.
► LOITEROUS inclined to loiter; sluggish → 1566 obs.
► LONGSOME tardy, slow, dilatory, sluggish → 1661-2 obs. exc. Eng. dial.  
► LOURD sluggish, dull, stupid → 1390 obs.
► LOURDISH sluggish, dull, stupid → 1600 obs.
► LOURDY sluggish, dull, stupid → 1721 obs.
► LUGGISH slow, heavy, sluggish → 1933 Amer. dial.
► LUSK lazy, idle, sluggish, slothful, worthless → 1775
► LUSKISH inclined to be lazy or indolent; idle, slothful, sluggish → a1500
► LUSKY lazy, sluggish, slothful → 1604
► MACHLESS lazy, sluggish, indolent → 1808 Sc.
► OWLYST listless, sluggish, slothful, inert → 1440 obs.
► POKEY ► POKY slow, dawdling, sluggish → 1828 chiefly Amer.
► RUSTED ► RUSTED UP impaired by disuse, inactivity, or age; lacking alertness or vitality;  sluggish → 1556
► SATURNINE sluggish, cold, and gloomy in temperament; melancholy → 1433
► SLOWBACK sluggish, laggard → 1619 obs.
► SLOW-BELLIED sluggish, indolent → 1576 obs.
► SLOWFUL slow, sluggish, slothful, lazy → 1400
► SLOW-WITTED mentally sluggish; dull → 1571
► SOPIT adj. rendered dull or sluggish; sunk in sleep, sorrow, etc. → 1528 Sc. obs.
► SWEERT lazy, sluggish, reluctant, inactive, slothful, indolent → 1817 Sc.
► TARDIGRADE sluggish in thought or action; unprogressive; slow-going → 1883
► TARDIGRADOUS of people or animals: sluggish → 1866
► TARDIOUS tardy, sluggish → c1580 obs.
► TARDY-GAITED moving slowly, slow-paced, sluggish → 1599
► THOKISH slothful, sluggish, idle, slow, dull → 1682 Eng. dial. obs.
► THOKY slothful, sluggish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THOWLIE listless, sluggish → 1791 Sc. obs.
► UNACTIVE inactive; indisposed or unable to act; hence, sluggish, slothful → 1591 obs.
► UNRIFE slow, sluggish → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► UNSPEEDY slow, sluggish → 1615
► WAFFLE inert, limp, feeble, weak, sluggish → 1847 Sc.
► WIMPY stupid or sluggish → 1964 US students’ sl. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
► BACKWARDLY reluctantly, unwillingly, sluggishly → 1580
► HEAVY with laborious movement; slowly, sluggishly; laboriously → 1701
► LATELY slowly, tardily, sluggishly; reluctantly, sparingly → c1000 obs.
► LUMPISHLY dejectedly; stupidly; sluggishly → c1450 obs.

NOUNS
► BACKWARDNESS reluctance, disinclination; slowness of conception or action, sluggishness; bashfulness → 1597
► DUMPISHNESS sluggishness, inertness, insensibility → 1574 obs.
► FAINTNESS dejection, timorousness; inertness, sluggishness → 1398 obs.
► IGNAVY sluggishness, slowness, sloth → 1543 obs.
► LATESHIP slowness, sluggishness → a1300 obs.
► LENTITUDE slowness, sluggishness, tardiness → 1623
► LENTOR slowness, tardiness, sluggishness → a1763
► LUMPISHNESS sluggishness, drowsy inactivity, heaviness of heart → 1574 obs.
► TARDITUDE slowness to act; tardiness, sluggishness; unwillingness → 1794
► THOWLESSNESS want of energy, sluggishness → 1885 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAKESTER a sluggard, a lazy fellow, one fond of lying about → 1859 Eng. dial. sl. obs.
► BARLEY-BUMP a contemptuous name for a sluggard → 1851 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOWBERT a sluggish fellow, a dull lout, an oaf → 1513 Sc. obs.
► CAYNARD a lazy fellow, a sluggard; a worthless fellow, a rascal, a scoundrel; a term of reproach → 1303 obs.
► DA a sluggard → 1721 Sc.
► DARK a sluggish, stupid person → 1966 US students’ sl.
► DAW a lazy, good-for-nothing person; a sluggard → c1460
► DAWKIN a sluggard → 19C Eng. dial.
► DRUMBLE a dull, inactive person; an inert or sluggish person; a worn-out person or horse → 1575 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DRUMBLEDORE a heavy, sluggish, stupid fellow → 1881
► DUMMEL a stupid, foolish, or sluggish person; a slow, sluggish, or worn-out animal → 1777 Eng. dial.
► HEAVY-ARSE ► HEAVY-ASS a hulking, lazy fellow; a sluggard → 1902 Eng. dial.   (Bk.)
► IDLE BELLIES indolent sluggards or gluttons → a1300 obs.
► IDLER one who idles or is idle; one who spends his time in idleness; an indolent or lazy person; a sluggard; one who trifles away his time → 1534
► KAYNARD a worthless fellow; a lazy cowardly person; a sluggard; a rascal → 1782 obs.
► LAZY-BACK a sluggard → 1611 obs.
► LIE-ABED one who lies late in bed; a late riser; a sluggard → 1764
► LOBCOCK a country bumpkin; a clown, a lout, a boor; a dull, stupid, sluggish person; a clumsy, lubberly fellow; a blundering fool; a blockhead; a term of abuse → a1553 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LOLL-POOP literally, one who is sluggish in the stern; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggish lounger → 1661 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LOON a worthless person; a rogue, a scamp; a sluggard, an idler → 1450 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LOSENGER a sluggard → 1513 Sc.
► LOURD a lout, a sluggish, stupid fellow → 1579 obs.
► LUGGARD one who moves heavily; a sluggard → 1528 obs.
► LURDAN a term of opprobrium, reproach, or abuse, implying either dullness and incapacity, or idleness and rascality; a sluggard, a vagabond, a loafer → c1330 obs.
► LUSK an idle, lazy, slothful, good-for-nothing fellow; a sluggard → c1420 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LUSKIN an idle or lazy fellow; a sluggard → 1593 obs.
► SLOWBACK a slothful or sluggish person; a sluggard; a lazy, idle fellow; a loiterer; a loafer → 1577 obs.
► SLOW-BELLY a lazy, idle, or indolent person; a sluggard, a laggard → 1607
► SLOWCOME a slow person; a lagging, stupid, lazy fellow; a lazy, sluggish fellow; an idler → 1882 Eng. dial.
► SLUCKATRICE a sluggard → 1825 Eng. dial. obs.
► SLUGABED one who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard → 1599
► WORK-BRITTLE a lazy person, a sluggard → 1952 Amer. dial.

PHRASES
► HE IS LIKE A ROPE-DANCER’S POLE, WITH LEAD AT BOTH ENDS said of a dull, sluggish fellow → 1787

​VERBS
► DOWF to be or make dull or sluggish → E19 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DRINGLE to waste time in a lazy, lingering manner; to be slow, dilatory; to dawdle; to trickle sluggishly → c1680 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DRONE to act in a sluggish or indolent manner → E16
► DRUMBLE to be sluggish or lazy and slow in movement → 1598 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DULL to be inactive or sluggish; to drowse → 1430 obs.
► FIDGE-FADGE to go along slowly, sluggishly, at a pace between walking and running → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEPP to move about slowly, sluggishly, or aimlessly; to saunter; to hang around → 1908 Sc.
► MULL to proceed in a lazy or aimless manner; to dawdle, to loaf; to move sluggishly → 1879 Amer. dial.