Definition of "lie-abed" []

• A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "With all this she was a little of a slattern, something more of a lie-abed, and, above all, a gossip of the first water; neglecting house, household, and every thing else, to loiter slipshod in the houses of her gossip neighbors."
• "She was no "lie-abed" in any case, and in her present nervous state she had to be up and doing."
• "Mrs. Hazleton scolded her jestingly for late rising, and asked if she was always such a lie-abed."