单词 | sloggering |
释义 | sloggeringadj. 1. That hangs loosely; going about untidily, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] untidya1375 unred1528 sluttish?1529 untrimmed?1529 untrick1570 untrim1570 shevelled1613 hirsute1621 incompta1628 messy1627 unneat1648 tawdry1672 slattern1680 bunting1759 untrig1821 sloggering1825 slummocking1825 scrambling1826 poucey1829 anyhow1831 mullocky1839 ragtail1846 mussy1859 slubbery1880 unshipshape1883 mussed1888 slummocky1898 ruggy1929 idle1956 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > loosely swagging1593 ungathered1615 swaggy1646 sagged1647 slouch1688 sloggering1825 flipperty-flopperty1859 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Sloggering, loose, untidy. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. iii. 8 Sloggering, baggy-breeched, slangey-gaitered fellows. 1898 E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of Flow xvii. 228 Perse with his great sloggering frame, and low beast-like face. 2. [Perhaps a different word.] (See quot. 1977.) rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > clashing against ship with sucking noise sloggering1876 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xix, 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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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