slouch

Noun

1. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
2. Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
3. Someone who is slow to act.
4. (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
2. (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
3. (transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slaʊt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: slugge

Cognate with Swedish: sloka

In summary

Unclear. Perhaps from Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“lazy fellow”). See also Swedish sloka (“to slouch, wilt”), related to Swedish slak (“slack, soft and flexible”) and Latin laxus (“loose, slack”).

Synonyms

stoop

droop

slump

lazybones

hang down

slouch hat

lazy person

suspend

rounding of the shoulders

laggard

gauche

ungainly

decline

duffer

fiddler

fumbler

ham-fisted

hang

idler

inapt

inelegant

lazily

laziness

lingerer

loaf

loafer

lout

loutish

lubberly

lumpish

lumpy

maladroit

palooka

plod

sad sack

scuff

shuffle

sit

🪑

slob

slog

sloth

🦥

sloughy

sluggard

sprawl

squirt

tinkerer

trudge

unapt

unhandy

unskillful

Translations

muoversi goffamente

andar desgarbado

şapşal

encorbar-se

latschen

herabhängen lassen

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