sloggy
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare slugge.
Adjective
[edit]sloggy
- sluggish
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Thanne comth Sompnolence, that is, sloggy slombrynge..and this synne comth of slouthe.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- “sloggy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.