Middle English Dictionary Entry
sluggī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | sluggī adj. Also scluggi(e, sclugie & sloggi, sloggẹ̄ & (error) suggy. |
| Etymology | Perh. directly from ON because of date of 1st quot.; for later occurrences also cp. ME slugge n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Indolent, sluggish; characterized by slothfulness; also, spiritually torpid; ?also, inattentive [quot.: Bk.GGrace]; ~ in, negligent in (sth.).
Associated quotations
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)132/29 : Hwa mei beo for scheome slummi, sloggi [Nero: sluggi], & slaw, þe bihalt hu swiðe bisi ure lauerd wes on eorðe?
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.706 : Thanne comth Sompnolence, that is, sloggy [vrr. sluggy, scluggy, slogge, suggy] slombrynge..and this synne comth of slouthe.
- a1400 Sluggy & slowe (Lamb 523)1 : Fleumaticus: Sluggy & slowe, in spetynge muiche.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)405/32 : Þese þat ben so necligent & sluggi, whiche neiþir doon greet yuel ne greet good.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)460 : Sluggy: Desidiosus, torpidus, ignavus.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)8a : Hit moste ben vsed..in ȝouþe, or þe body be made sleuþful and sluggy [vr. sloggy] by age and elde.
- c1450 Bk.GGrace (Eg 2006)454/10 : Sche sawe some of here sustrene atte the masse tyme sluggye ande nappynge for heuynesse.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)110/16 : A man was so slawe & sluggy in goddys seruyse, þat slawly he com to þe cherche.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)20/20 : His blissid modir..visityng now on, now a noþer, þat syngyn deuoutly..in divyne seruyse with oute sompnolence, ouerpassyng alle oþer wich ben scluggy and sompnolente.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)100/1 : It kepith hem fro dulnes and necligens, þat þei ben not sluggy in here gostly batayle.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)132/19 : If he be slowe, þei wul sey þat he is sclugye, feynt, and remysse.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)190/18 : Man..is hardy as a lyon..lyght and sqwyft as a kydde, slow and sloggi as a beer.
- a1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)60/44 : Thi soule is clad in fowl clothis whan it is wrappid..in sluggy slouth of ydilnes.
- c1500(a1449) Lydg.Aesop (Trin-C R.3.19)72 : Sluggy hertis out of þeyr slepe to wake.