steady worker; slogging = a beating, a fight; and to have a slog on = to put on a spurt. In America the spelling slug, slugger, &c, is accepted.
1853. Bradley, Verdant Green. His whole person put in Chancery, slung, bruised, fibbed, propped, fiddled, slogged, and otherwise ill-treated.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, i. v. The Slogger pulls up at last . . . fairly blown.
1878. Lang, Ballad of Boat-race. They catch the stroke, and they slog it through.
1885. Standard, 1 Dec. He was a vigorous slogger, and heartily objected to being bowled first ball.
1886. Phil. Times, 6 May. There was some terrible slogging . . . Cleary planted two rib-roasters, and a tap on Langdon's face.
1887. Fun, 9 Nov., 201. He had a "merry mill" with a Thames bargee, known as "Jim the Slogger," and the Slogger . . . got the worst of the scrap.
1891. Times, 14 Sep. 'Capital Punishment.' They top a lag out here [W. Aus.] for slogging a screw.
[?]. E. B. Michell, Boxing and Sparring [Century], 162. Slogging and hard hitting with the mere object of doing damage . . . earn no credit in the eyes of a good judge.
2. (public schools').—A large portion: spec. a big slice of cake.
Slogger, subs. (Camb. Univ.).—1.
A boat in the second division: corresponding
to the Oxford Torpids.
See Slog.
Slop, subs. (colloquial).—1. In pl.
= liquid food: spec. weak tea: or
'any thin beverage taken medicinally'
(Grose): also slip-slop.
As adj. = feeble, poor, weak; as
verb. = to eat or drink greedily, to
mop up (q.v.): also to slop (or
slap) up, or to slop it; slopping-up
= a drinking bout; slop-feeder
= a tea-spoon; slop-tubs
= tea-things; slip-sloppy
= slushy, watery.
1515. De Generibus Ebriosorum, &c. [Hodgkin, Notes and Queries, 3 S. vii. 163. In this treatise occurs names of fancy drinks . . . I select a few of the most presentable] slip-slop . . . Raise-head . . . Swell-nose.
1566. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle [Dodsley, Old Plays (Reed), iii. 193]. To slop up milk.
1675. Cotton, Burlesque on Burlesque, 187. No, thou shalt feed instead of these Or your slip-slaps of curds and whey On Nectar and Ambrosia.
1692. Dryden, Juvenal, vi. 772. But thou, whatever slops she will have brought, Be thankful.
d.1704. Lestrange, Works [Century]. The sick husband here wanted for neither slops nor doctors.
1821. Combe, Dr. Syntax, iii. i. At length the coffee was announced . . . 'And since the meagre slip-slop's made, I think the call should be obeyed.'
a.1832. Edgworth, Rose, Thistle and Shamrock, iii. 2. Does he expect tea can be keeping hot for him to the end of time? He'll have nothing but slop-dash.
1837. Barham, Ingold. Leg., ii. 291. There was no taking refuge . . . On a slip-sloppy day, in a cab or a bus.
1900. Flynt, Tramps. Yonkers Slim was going to meet him in Washington with some money, and the bums intended to have a great sloppin'-up.
2. (nautical).—In pl. = 'Wearing apparel and bedding used by seamen' (Grose). Hence ready-made clothing. Slop-seller = a dealer in ready-made clothes (Grose); slop-chest = a ship's supply of clothes and bedding: usually doled out at cost price; slop-book = the register of supplies; slop-work = (1) the cheapest: hence (2) any work poorly done; sloppy = ill-fitting. [Originally 'an outer garment made of linen' (Wright)].
