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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-England: /slʌɡ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /slɐɡ/
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• Northern-England: /slʊɡ/
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Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; 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”). Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.

Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then cognate with slay and slaughter; also German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”). Also compare slog.

158 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ainu: シマイマ (simayma) — gastropod
• Albanian: ligavec — gastropod
• Albanian: jargavec — gastropod
• Albanian: jargës — gastropod
• Albanian: lapurak — gastropod
• Arabic: بَزَّاقَة (bazzāqa) — gastropod
• Arapaho: woo'oowoo3iibeihii — gastropod
• Armenian: խլեզ (xlez) — gastropod
• Armenian: շողուկ (šoġuk) — gastropod
• Assamese: কুমজেলেকুৱা (kumzelekua) — gastropod
• Assamese: কুমজেলুকা (kumzeluka) — gastropod
• Asturian: llimiagu — gastropod
• Asturian: llimaz — gastropod
• Basque: bare — gastropod
• Belarusian: смоўж (smowž) — gastropod
• Belarusian: сліма́к (slimák) — gastropod
• Belarusian: слізня́к (sliznják) — gastropod
• Bulgarian: гол о́хлюв (gol óhljuv) — gastropod
• Burmese: ပက်ကျိ (pakkyi.) — gastropod
• Catalan: llimac — gastropod
• Cebuano: hilâhilâ — gastropod
• Chinese Cantonese: 鼻涕蟲 /鼻涕虫 (bei6 tai3 cung4) — gastropod
• Chinese Mandarin: 鼻涕蟲 /鼻涕虫 (bítìchóng) — gastropod
• Chinese Mandarin: 蛞蝓 (kuòyú) — gastropod
• Chinese Mandarin: 蜒蚰 (yányóu) — gastropod
• Chinese Mandarin: 水蜒蚰 (shuǐ yányóu) — gastropod
• Czech: slimák — gastropod
• Danish: snegl — gastropod
• Danish: skovsnegl — gastropod
• Danish: dræbersnegl — gastropod
• Dutch: naaktslak — gastropod
• Dutch: slak — gastropod
• Esperanto: limako — gastropod
• Estonian: nälkjas — gastropod
• Finnish: etana — gastropod
• French: limace — gastropod
• Galician: lesma — gastropod
• Galician: limacha — gastropod
• Galician: limaco — gastropod
• Galician: limáchega — gastropod
• Galician: aligacha — gastropod
• Georgian: ლოქორა (lokora) — gastropod
• German: Nacktschnecke — gastropod
• German: Schnecke — gastropod
• Greek: γυμνοσάλιαγκας (gymnosáliagkas) — gastropod
• Greek: λείμαξ (leímax) — gastropod
• Ancient Greek: λεῖμαξ (leîmax) — gastropod
• Mbya Guarani: evo'i pe — gastropod
• Gujarati: ગોકળગાય (gokaḷgāya) — gastropod
• Hungarian: meztelen csiga — gastropod
• Icelandic: (kuðungslaus) snígill — gastropod
• Indonesian: siput — gastropod
• Ingrian: niskapliiska — gastropod
• Interlingua: limace — gastropod
• Irish: seilide drúchta — gastropod
• Irish: drúchtín — gastropod
• Irish: seilide — gastropod
• Italian: lumaca — gastropod
• Italian: limaccia — gastropod
• Italian: chiocciola — gastropod
• Japanese: 蛞蝓 (namekuji) — gastropod
• Japanese: ナメクジ (namekuji) — gastropod
• Korean: 민달팽이 (mindalpaeng'i) — gastropod
• Korean: 활유 (hwaryu) — gastropod
• Lao: ລີ້ນຫມາ (līn mā) — gastropod
• Lao: ທາກ (thāk) — gastropod
• Latin: limax — gastropod
• Latvian: kailgliemezis — gastropod
• Lithuanian: šliužas — gastropod
• Macedonian: го́лич (gólič) — gastropod
• Malay: lintah bulan — gastropod
• Maltese: bugħarwien — gastropod
• Māori: putoko — gastropod
• Māori: ngata — gastropod
• Mauritian Creole: los — gastropod
• Norman: lînmache — gastropod
• Occitan: limauc — gastropod
• Old East Slavic: смолжь (smolžĭ) — gastropod
• Old English: sneġel — gastropod
• Persian: راب (râb) — gastropod
• Persian: لیسه (lise) — gastropod
• Plautdietsch: Mestworm — gastropod
• Polish: ślinik — gastropod
• Polish: ślimak nagi — gastropod
• Polish: ślimak bezmuszlowy — gastropod
• Portuguese: lesma — gastropod
• Romanian: melc — gastropod
• Romanian: limax — gastropod
• Russian: сли́зень (slízenʹ) — gastropod
• Russian: слизня́к (sliznják) — gastropod
• Campidanese Sardinian: sitzigórru — gastropod
• Sardinian: gioga — gastropod
• Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag — gastropod
• Serbo-Croatian: пуж голаћ — gastropod
• Serbo-Croatian: пуж слинар — gastropod
• Serbo-Croatian: puž golać — gastropod
• Serbo-Croatian: puž slinar — gastropod
• Sicilian: limaccia — gastropod
• Sicilian: mignatta — gastropod
• Slovak: slimák — gastropod
• Slovene: polž slinar — gastropod
• Spanish: babosa — gastropod
• Spanish: limaco — gastropod
• Spanish: babaza — gastropod
• Spanish: limaza — gastropod
• Spanish: babosilla — gastropod
• Spanish: lumiaco — gastropod
• Swedish: snigel — gastropod
• Tagalog: lintang-kati — gastropod
• Tarifit: buššer — gastropod
• Thai: ทาก (tâak) — gastropod
• Tibetan: སྨུག་འབུ — gastropod
• Turkish: sümüklü böcek — gastropod
• Ukrainian: слима́к (slymák) — gastropod
• Ukrainian: слизня́к (slyznják) — gastropod
• Uzbek: shilliqqurt — gastropod
• Venetan: liméga — gastropod
• Vietnamese: sên — gastropod
• Volapük: laläf — gastropod
• Walloon: lumçon — gastropod
• Welsh: gwlithen — gastropod
• Zazaki: lolıko çılmın — gastropod
• Bulgarian: сачма (sačma) — bullet
• Bulgarian: куршум (kuršum) — bullet
• French: pruneau — bullet
• French: dragée — bullet
• French: bastos — bullet
• Macedonian: са́чма (sáčma) — bullet
• Macedonian: ку́ршум (kúršum) — bullet
• Portuguese: bala — bullet
• Portuguese: projétil — bullet
• Portuguese: chumbinho — bullet
• Russian: пу́ля (púlja) — bullet
• Russian: масли́на (maslína) — bullet
• Welsh: malwod — bullet
• Bulgarian: жетон (žeton) — counterfeit coin
• Bulgarian: фалшива монета (falšiva moneta) — counterfeit coin
• Finnish: prikka — counterfeit coin
• Macedonian: жето́н (žetón) — counterfeit coin
• Bulgarian: глътка (glǎtka) — shot of drink
• Czech: panák — shot of drink
• Finnish: huikka — shot of drink
• Greek: σφηνάκι (sfináki) — shot of drink
• Macedonian: го́лтка (góltka) — shot of drink
• Macedonian: шот (šot) — shot of drink
• Portuguese: dose — shot of drink
• Portuguese: trago — shot of drink
• Russian: сто́пка (stópka) — shot of drink
• Russian: рюмка (rjumka) — shot of drink
• Zazaki: next — shot of drink
• German: hinunterstürzen — to drink, gulp
• German: trinken — to drink, gulp
• Portuguese: beber — to drink, gulp
• German: schlagen — to hit hard
• German: niederschlagen — to hit hard
• German: prügeln — to hit hard
• German: verprügeln — to hit hard
• Portuguese: derrubar — to hit hard