112: Slug– Mar 30, 2015

Mondays are seldom easy for most of us to even get out of bed for, let alone carry out a day's work. Slugs in turn may be slow-moving and give an impression of grotesqueness, but the word 'sluggish' is not a derivative of the word 'slug', at least not directly. The word 'sluggish' comes from the word 'sluggard'. Interestingly, the word 'sluggard' comes from 'slug' as in alcohol, because when someone has been slugging slugs of hard alcohol, it is pretty safe to say that that person will be fairly slow-moving and groggy.