Slogard

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who is habitually lazy and averse to work or effort
2. An idle individual who avoids exertion and tends to lie about doing nothing
3. Someone sluggish and indolent, reluctant to get up or make any useful effort

Etymology: A sluggard was once a person who lay about, slow to work, and the word's core is simply the verb "slug," meaning to be sluggish or idle. The "slug" that means the slimy creature shares the same root idea of slowness, though the two senses developed separately in English. The ending "-ard" was originally a pejorative suffix. It came into English through Old French, where it derived from a Germanic element meaning "hardy" or "strong," but in words like this it attached to a base to mark a habitual, often unflattering, trait. "Drunkard" and "coward" follow the same pattern. Over time the spelling shifted from "slogard" to "sluggard," which made the word look more like "slug" and tied it more firmly to that sense of idleness.

Synonyms: sluggard, lazybones, idler, loafer

Antonyms: go-getter, worker