slugabed \SLUHG-uh-bed\, noun:

One who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard.

Nemecek’s business is not for slugabeds. He opens for business every weekday at 4 a.m.
— Drew Fetherston, “He Can Really Make Pigs Fly”, Newsday, December 12, 1994

I found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slugabed.
— W. Hurton, Doomed Ship

All save Whit elected to sleep in that morning. Whit came back to report that he had spotted the tracks of a doe and a fawn made in the new snow directly beneath my unoccupied stand, and I regretted being a slugabed.
— “Paying Tribute to Deer in Minnesota Woods”, New York Times, December 6, 1998

Slugabed is from slug, “sluggard” + abed, “in bed.”

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for slugabed

Interesting word for a return to Tube of the Day. I thought for sure I would find nothing with such an archaic word, but sure enough, we have two youtube videos.
The first is a video demonstration (done in AfterEffect) showcasing a fancy-schmancy new typeface. The music for the video is by a band called Slugabed (hence the hit).

The link is an inspiration … or something.

The second video appears to be a test video of someone playing around with texture and a graphics renderer set in time to music by … you guessed it … slugabed.

It’s, well, quirky.

Allow me to render a link.

And since they have a, well, fortuitous name, here’s their myspace page. Hope you like electronica … at least, I think it’s electronica. I’m not good with such things.

Hopefully tomorrow’s word will be more interesting, and produce some humor. I much prefer the funny on my blogs.

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