| 单词 |
sluggy |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈsluggy, a.1 Obs.
Also 3 sluggi, 5 sloggy.
[See slug v.1, and cf. Norw. sluggjen slow, backward.]
Sluggish, indolent.
a1225Ancr. R. 258 Hwo mei beon, uor scheome, slummi & sluggi & slouh, þet bihalt hwu swuðe bisi ure Louerd was on eorðe? a1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋706 Thanne cometh Sompnolence, that is sloggy slombrynge. 1408tr. 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. c1440Jacob's Well 289 Þat þou schalt noȝt be wery, heuy, ne sluggy ne fayle þer-in. a1533Ld. Berners Golden Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Cc j b, The more I slept, the more sluggy I was. 1608Tourneur 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.
1882Gard. Chron. XVII. 25 They let the slugs in that very sluggy year, 1879, abound around them. 1884Blackw. Mag. Nov. 636, I not only gave them ‘cawed’ mutton, but also ‘sluggy’ cabbage. |
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