单词 | sluggy |
释义 | † sluggyadj.1 Obsolete. Sluggish, indolent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > sluggish or heavy slowOE sluggy?c1225 dull1393 slowfulc1400 sluggedc1430 sluggingc1430 slugc1440 sluggishc1450 lithera1500 peakish1519 lumpish1528 sopit1528 loiterous1566 slugring1566 drowsy1570 slow-bellied1576 snailish1581 blate1597 druggly1611 jacent1611 clammy1622 loggish1642 ignave1657 sliving1661 druggle-headed1694 slow-coachish1844 loggy1847 logy1859 tardigradous1866 tardigrade1883 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 189 Hwa mei beon for schame slummi sluggi & slaw. þe bihalt hu bisi ure lauerd wes on eorðe. a1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋706 Thanne cometh Sompnolence, that is sloggy slombrynge. 1408 tr. Vegetius De re milit. (Digby 233) lf. 184 b/1 It most be vsed & asayed byfore in ȝouþe or þe body be made sleutheful & sloggy by age. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 289 Þat þou schalt noȝt be wery, heuy, ne sluggy, ne fayle þer-in. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Cc.jv The more I slept, the more sluggy I was. 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iv. sig. H As if sleepe had caught him: Which claimes most interest in such sluggy men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). sluggyadj.2 Abounding in slugs, or shell-less snails. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera > of or belonging to Inoperculata > of family Limacidae > abounding in slugs sluggy1882 1882 Gardeners' Chron. 17 25 They let the slugs in that very sluggy year, 1879, abound around them. 1884 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 636 I not only gave them ‘cawed’ mutton, but also ‘sluggy’ cabbage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1?c1225adj.21882 |
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