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slugicide

noun

Etymology

From slug + -icide.

  1. inherited from slugge — “lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”
  2. suffixed as slugicide — “slug + icide”

Definitions

  1. A substance that kills slugs.

    • I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist.
    • Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;
    • They all talk, telling of the Dorothies that did so well last year, the delphiniums the slugs ate, and getting advice thrown in with more Dorothies and cans of slugicide—guaranteed free of arsenic—and packets of seed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slugicide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA