Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr.A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.( obsolete ) A slow, lazy person a sluggard.Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.Compare also Dutch slak ( “ snail, slug ” ). Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge ( “ lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness ” ), probably of Old Norse origin compare Norn slug ( “ lazy, slothful, sluggish ” ), dialectal Norwegian slugg ( “ a large, heavy body ” ), sluggje ( “ heavy, slow person ” ), Danish slog ( “ rascal, rogue ” ) perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- ( “ smooth slick sticky slimy ” ) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr ( “ lazy person, oaf ” ), whence Icelandic slókur ( “ laziness ” ). Etymology 1 The Spanish slug ( Arion vulgaris)
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