slugging match (slugingmach)

listic contest in which the contestants slug each other; an unskilful, brutal fight. [U.S.] sluggish (slug'ish), a. [ A Voyage which proved very tedious and hazardous to us, by reason of our ships being so sluggish a Sailer that She would not ply to Wind-ward. Dampier, Voyages, II. ii. 19. Scott, Quentin Durward, xxviii. The sluggish murmur of the river Somme. 2. Idle and lazy, habitually or temporarily; indolent; slothful; dull; inactive. IMG:content-1335.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. Inert; inactive; torpid. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. 4. Dull; tame; stupid. Incredible it may seem so sluggish a conceit should prove so ancient as to be authoriz'd by the Elder Ninnius. Milton, Hist. Eng., i. =Syn. 2. Lazy, Slothful, etc. (see idle ); slack, supine, phlegmatic, apathetic. sluggishly (slug'ish-li), adv. In a sluggish manr; torpidly; lazily; drowsily; idly; slowly. ner;