slug snail

slug snail
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  • slug — slug1 [slug] n. [ME slugge, slow, clumsy person or thing < Scand, as in Swed dial. slogga, to be sluggish < IE base * (s)leu , to hang loosely, lax > SLUDGE] 1. any of a large number of small, gastropod mollusks, esp. the ones resembling …   English World dictionary

  • Slug — Slug, n. [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. slukk low spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak, slek, a snail.] 1. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A hindrance; an obstruction. [Obs.] Bacon.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Slug caterpillar — Slug Slug, n. [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. slukk low spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak, slek, a snail.] 1. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A hindrance; an obstruction. [Obs.] Bacon …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Snail — For other uses, see Snail (disambiguation). For sea snails, see Sea snail. For slugs, see Slug. Helix pomatia, a species of land snail …   Wikipedia

  • Slug — For other uses, see Slug (disambiguation). For marine slugs, see Sea slug. For snails, see Snail. Slug Various species of British …   Wikipedia

  • Slug mite — Taxobox name = Slug mite image width = image caption = regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Chelicerata classis = Arachnida subclassis = Acari superordo = Acariformes ordo = Prostigmata subordo = Eupodina unranked familia =… …   Wikipedia

  • slug —    Used insultingly to a person, this appears to be a transferred use of the word for a creature related to the snail, but with no shell. In fact, the word was originally applied to a sluggard, a slow, lazy person and was transferred to the… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • SLUG Queen — The SLUG Queen, slug queen, or S.L.U.G. Queen (supposedly an acronym for the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod ), is a humorous concept and popular event, an alternative festival, which takes place annually in Eugene,… …   Wikipedia

  • snail — snaillike, adj. /snayl/, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about. 2. a slow or lazy person; sluggard. 3. a cam having the form of a spiral. 4.… …   Universalium

  • snail — n. 1. Slug. 2. Drone, idler, sluggard, laggard, slug. 3. Snail clover, snail trefoil (Medicago scutellata) …   New dictionary of synonyms

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