sloggerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

slog +‎ -er

名詞

slogger (複数形 sloggers)

1. (cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
2. (colloquial) One who hits hard; a slugger.
   • 1857, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     Tom felt the wisdom of the counsel, and saw already that he couldn't go in and finish the Slogger off at mere hammer and tongs, so changed his tactics completely in the third round. He now fights cautious

派生語

• mud slogger

語源 2

According to Hotten: from slow-goer.

名詞

slogger (複数形 sloggers)

1. (UK, Cambridge University slang) An inferior racing boat.

   Coordinate term: torpid

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• loggers, roggles