From slug + -ish.
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Slow; having little motion.
Vp thou tame River, vvake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drovvn'st thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggiſh vvaters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flovv.
Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.