slouch
Use Slouch in a sentence
verb (used without object)
1.
to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
2.
to move or walk with loosely drooping body and careless gait.
3.
to have a droop or downward bend, as a hat.
verb (used with object)
4.
to cause to droop or bend down, as the shoulders or a hat.
noun
5.
a drooping or bending forward of the head and shoulders; an awkward, drooping posture or carriage.
6.
an awkward, clumsy, or slovenly person.
7.
8.
a lazy, inept, or inefficient person.
Origin:
1505–15; origin uncertain
1505–15; origin uncertain
Related forms
slouch·er, noun
slouch·ing·ly, adverb
un·slouched, adjective
un·slouch·ing, adjective
Synonyms
8. laggard, loafer, sluggard.
8. laggard, loafer, sluggard.
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slouch (slaʊtʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) to sit or stand with a drooping bearing |
| 2. | (intr) to walk or move with an awkward slovenly gait |
| 3. | (tr) to cause (the shoulders) to droop |
| —n | |
| 4. | a drooping carriage |
| 5. | informal (usually used in negative constructions) an incompetent or slovenly person: he's no slouch at football |
| [C16: of unknown origin] | |
| 'sloucher | |
| —n | |
| 'slouching | |
| —adj | |
| 'slouchingly | |
| —adv | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
slouch
1515, "lazy man," variant of slouk (1570), perhaps from O.N. slokr "lazy fellow," and related to slack on the notion of "sagging, drooping." Meaning "stooping of the head and shoulders" first recorded 1725. The verb meaning "walk with a slouch" is from 1754. Slouch hat first attested 1837.
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Example sentences
Don't let your shoulders slump, your head droop, or your lower back slouch.
Watch him pull out the old pipe, draw down the old slouch hat, loll around the campfire with the boys.
It's a tie between the gap-toothed grin framed with big ears and the round-shouldered, bowlegged slouch.
The model was no slouch the following year, with deliveries of more than a million cars.
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