▪ I. † ˈsluggy, a.1 Obs.
Also 3 sluggi, 5 sloggy.
[See slug v.1, and cf. Norw. sluggjen slow, backward.]
Sluggish, indolent.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 258 Hwo mei beon, uor scheome, slummi & sluggi & slouh, þet bihalt hwu swuðe bisi ure Louerd was on eorðe? a 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶706 Thanne cometh Sompnolence, that is sloggy slombrynge. 1408 tr. Vegetius De re milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 184 b/1 It most be vsed & asayed byfore in ȝouþe or þe body be made sleutheful & sloggy by age. c 1440 Jacob's Well 289 Þat þou schalt noȝt be wery, heuy, ne sluggy ne fayle þer-in. a 1533 Ld. Berners Golden Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Cc j b, The more I slept, the more sluggy I was. 1608 Tourneur Rev. Trag. iv. ii, As if sleep had caught him, Which claimes most interest in such sluggy men. |
▪ II. sluggy, a.2
(ˈslʌgɪ)
[f. slug n.1 4.]
Abounding in slugs, or shell-less snails.
| 1882 Gard. Chron. XVII. 25 They let the slugs in that very sluggy year, 1879, abound around them. 1884 Blackw. Mag. Nov. 636, I not only gave them ‘cawed’ mutton, but also ‘sluggy’ cabbage. |