sloggy

Middle English

Etymology

Compare slugge.

Adjective

sloggy

1. 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.

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Alternative forms

• sloggi, sluggi, sluggy

References

• “sloggy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.