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salugi¹

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See Saluki.

noun salugis

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of Saluki (“a breed of hound originating in the Middle East”). And when the boy had grown up, he went up on the roof of his house and he saw a salūgī (i.e. greyhound or hunting dog) which was following a man who was walking on the highway.

salugi²

Where it comes from

Unknown. Attested in print from the 1950s; likely used earlier.

noun saloogie · sloogie · saluggi · salugie

  1. New York, US, informal, uncountable A keep-away game in which children throw around an object with the aim of keeping it away from a particular child (often the owner of the object) or from another group of children; keepings off. They had seized the tan derby of one of their number; three others in sharp suits and silk waistcoats were tossing it around in a wild game of salugi.

    Similar: keep-away, monkey in the middle, piggy in the middle

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@misc{salugi_2026,
  title = {salugi},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salugi},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}