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sludgy, a.|ˈslʌdʒɪ|
[f. sludge n. + -y.]
1. Muddy, miry, oozy.
1782W. Gilpin Obs. on Wye (1789) 53 Sludgy shores too appeared on each side. 1805Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 220 A rich sludgy mixture of fine earth and clay. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 560 The man should remove any wet sludgy matter from the bottom of the drain with a scoop. 1878Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 326 The whole coming off in a sludgy mess, and leaving the paper quite bare.
2. Consisting of newly formed particles of ice; full of sludge-ice.
1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xxxviii. (1856) 348 No sludgy streams of pancake. 1856― Arctic Expl. I. xxxi. 423 The rise and fall of the sludgy water.
3. Of the colour of sludge.
1975Country Life 18 Dec. 1770/2 ‘Workwear’, made in sludgy colours and materials. 1978Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 17/4 All colours are sludgy at the fashionable end of the market at present... Pinks, yellows and purples are just unsaleable.
Add:4. fig. Sluggish, tedious; confused and undefined, ‘muddy’.
1901C. J. C. Hyne Master of Fortune xii. 296, I shall get a sludgy paragraph in the papers for the Grosser Carl, headed ‘Gallant rescue’, with all the facts put upside down. 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah Pref. 72 There is no question of a new religion, but rather of redistilling the eternal spirit of religion and thus extricating it from the sludgy residue of temporalities and legends that are making belief impossible. 1984J. Updike Hugging Shore (1985) 160 Hemingway..would have hated this overlong, sludgy and frequently humiliating book. |