sloggering, ppl. a.
(ˈslɒgərɪŋ)
[f. slogger v.]
1. That hangs loosely; going about untidily, etc.
| 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Sloggering, loose, untidy. 1853 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour iii. 8 Sloggering, baggy-breeched, slangey-gaitered fellows. 1898 E. W. Hamilton Mawkin xvii. 228 Perse with his great sloggering frame, and low beast-like face. |
2. [Perh. a different word.] (See quot. 1977.) rare—1.
| 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wr. Deutschland in Poems (1967) 57 The inboard seas run swirling and hawling; The rash smart sloggering brine Blinds her. 1977 J. Milroy Lang. G. M. Hopkins 245 Sloggering..: Certainly imit., belonging to phonaesthetic series (slither, etc.), a derivative (slog, etc.), and a blend... Complex associations suggest the meaning: ‘dashing (against the ship) repeatedly and drawing back with a sucking gurgling noise’. |