Lost Word Of The Day (29)

Words of encouragement to someone of a lazy disposition to pull themselves together often are like water off a duck’s back. Perhaps it is time to get inventive in your description of their slothfulness. One noun that could be usefully revived to add a bit of variety to your torrent of invective is pigritude, used in the 17th century to describe laziness.

The word might have gone out of fashion, but the condition certainly has not.