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sloth
English
Alternative forms
- sloath, slowth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English slouthe, slewthe (“laziness”), from Old English sl?wþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþ? (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow +? -th. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sl???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sl??/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /sl??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /sl??/
- Rhymes: -???, -??
Noun
sloth (countable and uncountable, plural sloths)
- (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- 1758, Benjamin Franklin, Preliminary Address to the Pennsylvania Almanac
- Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.
- 1758, Benjamin Franklin, Preliminary Address to the Pennsylvania Almanac
- (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
Usage notes
Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.
Synonyms
- (animal): tardigrade
Hyponyms
- (animal): two-toed sloth, three-toed sloth
Derived terms
Related terms
- slowth
Translations
Verb
sloth (third-person singular simple present sloths, present participle slothing, simple past and past participle slothed)
- (obsolete, intransitive, transitive) To be idle; to idle (away time).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
- 1676, John Bunyan, The Strait Gate, or, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven, London: Francis Smith, p. 69,[1]
- […] the most of professors are for imbezzeling, mispending and slothing away their time, their talents, their opportunities to do good in […]
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 2,[2]
- That you endeavour carefully to please your Lady, Master or Mistress, be faithful, diligent and submissive to them, encline not to sloth or laze in bed, but rise early in a morning.
Further reading
- sloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sloth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Loths, holts, loths
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unau
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??n??/, /u??na?/
Etymology
From Brazilian Portuguese, from Tupian.
Noun
unau (plural unaus)
- Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, a two-toed sloth native to South America.
- 1834, Augustus Addison Gould (editor), A System of Natural History, page 264,
- The unau, or two-toed sloth, has no tail, and only two nails on the fore feet. The ai, or three-toed sloth, has a short tail, and three nails on every foot. The nose of the unau, is likewise much longer, the forehead higher, and the ears longer than those of the ai.
- 1834, Augustus Addison Gould (editor), A System of Natural History, page 264,
French
Etymology
From Tupian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.no/
Noun
unau m (plural unaus or unaux)
- unau
Further reading
“unau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Welsh
Noun
unau m pl
- plural of un
Mutation
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