sloggish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

slog +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

sloggish (not comparable)

  1. slow, sluggish
    • 1951, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Tropics: World of Tomorrow, page 82:
      the tiny, sweet "ladyfingers" of the Carribbean; the sloggish "water bananas" of Equatorial Africa; and the big, yellow Gros Michel, which has become the standby of American, British Isles, and most European markets.
    • 1980, Fannie Safier, Adventures in reading, →ISBN, page 248:
      With a gurgle and gush And a sloggish slush, I spray the logs and spatter the frogs,
    • 1995, Sanford M. Dorbin, Never enough light: new & selected poems, 1966-1994, page 117:
      I don't know why, I was just fine. Not at all sloggish.
    • 2002, Reserve Bank of Malawi, Financial and Economic Review, volume 34:
      The slow sloggish performance manufacturing and mining and quarrying sectors, as well as the private social and community services sector.