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Middle English
Etymology
Compare slugge.
Adjective
sloggy
- sluggish
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
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)
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