Defn: One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
[Cant or Slang]
SLUGGING MATCH Slug"ging match. (a) A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang] (b) A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. [Slang, U. S.]
SLUGGISH
Slug"gish, a.
1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow.
4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." Milton.
Syn.
— Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull;
drowsy; inactive. See Inert.
— Slug"gish*ly, adv.
— Slug"gish*ness, n.
SLUGGY
Slug"gy, a.
Defn: Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.