aslug

English

Etymology

a- +‎ slug, to move slowly.

Adverb

aslug (comparative more aslug, superlative most aslug)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) sluggishly
    "[He] drags on muddy shore his boat, / That comes aslug against the stream. — Fotherby.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 4 February 2012, at 15:09