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  • Stuff on all your favorite fast foods and gurgle and slurg flavored iced sugar water.

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  • You can laugh as they slosh and slurg in the warm stinking mud, fleeing from the snippy reptiles, the beloved children of Set, the God of Crocodile Infested Swamps.

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  • (verb) - (1) To lie sluggishly. Related to German schlurgen, to go about in a slovenly manner.

    --Walter Skeat's Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, 1914

    (2) Slug, to be lazy and sleepy; whence sluggard and slug, applied to the earthworm from its slow motion. "He used to slug and sleep in slothful shade." Spencer's The Faerie Queene. Hence, slug-a-bed.

    --Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874

    January 14, 2018