slug
意味
- 《米俗》弾丸,たま
- (自動販売機などで不法に使われる)偽造硬貨
- ナメクジ
- …をげんこつでぶんなぐる
- (特に)こぶしでの強打
例文
Do slugs die if you pour salt on them?
ナメクジに塩をかけたら死んじゃうの？
Do slugs die if you put salt on them?
ナメクジに塩をかけたら死んじゃうの？
He slugged down a whiskey and water.
ウィスキーの水割りをガッツリ飲んだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.