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sloggering, ppl. a.|ˈslɒgərɪŋ|
[f. slogger v.]
1. That hangs loosely; going about untidily, etc.
1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Sloggering, loose, untidy. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour iii. 8 Sloggering, baggy-breeched, slangey-gaitered fellows. 1898E. W. Hamilton Mawkin xvii. 228 Perse with his great sloggering frame, and low beast-like face.
2. [Perh. a different word.] (See quot. 1977.) rare—1.
1876G. M. Hopkins Wr. Deutschland in Poems (1967) 57 The inboard seas run swirling and hawling; The rash smart sloggering brine Blinds her. 1977J. Milroy Lang. G. M. Hopkins 245 Sloggering..: Certainly imit., belonging to phonaesthetic series (slither, etc.), a derivative (slog, etc.), and a blend... Complex associations suggest the meaning: ‘dashing (against the ship) repeatedly and drawing back with a sucking gurgling noise’. |