slugged

Variant of slug

noun

  1. any of a large number of small, gastropod mollusks, esp. the ones resembling a land snail, but having only a rudimentary internal shell buried in the mantle
  2. a smooth, soft moth (family Eucleidae) or sawfly larva, resembling a slug
  3. a person, vehicle, etc. that moves sluggishly

Origin: ME slugge, slow, clumsy person or thing < Scand, as in Swed dial. slogga, to be sluggish < IE base *(s)leu-, to hang loosely, lax > sludge

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