A slugabed is somebody who stays in bed far too long. A lazy slugabed, up, you slugabed, called him a slugabed.
It is archaic and comic and appears in Shakespeare. The word is slug plus abed, and the a- in abed is an old preposition meaning in or on, the same one in ashore, aloft and asleep.
1nounslugabedSomebody who stays in bed far too long.
“Come on, you slugabed, it's nearly noon and breakfast is long gone!”
slugabed is a lazy person.
Slug plus abed, where a- is an old preposition meaning in or on. Shakespeare uses the word in Romeo and Juliet.
From slug + abed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire