The Slug

How long have I known the word? Ten years? Fifteen? Sluggish: adj. slow, indolent, torpid. And there I was, walking to uni one day and thinking, gee, I feel so slow, and indolent, and torpid. Like an upright slug dragging along the pavement. Slug-ish, I thought. I feel slug-ish.

And then it hit me. Sluggish: of or like a slug. From Middle English, slugissh.

Un-believable.