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sloggish

sloggish adjective: slow, sluggish.

Adjective

sloggish (not comparable)

  1. slow, sluggish
    • 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.1951, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Tropics: World of Tomorrow, page 82
    • With a gurgle and gush And a sloggish slush, I spray the logs and spatter the frogs,1980, Fannie Safier, Adventures in reading, →ISBN, page 248

Origin of sloggish

From slog + -ish.

Questions about sloggish

What does sloggish mean?
Sloggish means slow, sluggish.
What part of speech is sloggish?
Sloggish is an adjective.

Words near sloggish in the dictionary

  1. slogging
  2. slogging away
  3. slogging one's guts out
  4. sloggingly
  5. sloggings
  6. sloggish
  7. sloggorne
  8. sloggornes
  9. slogo
  10. slogos
  11. slogs

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