Slouch
[slaʊtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a stooping carriage in standing and walking.
(noun.) an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions; 'he's no slouch when it comes to baseball'.
(verb.) walk slovenly.
Typist: Owen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
(n.) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
(v. i.) To droop, as the head.
(v. i.) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
(v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
Edited by Barton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Lubber, clown, awkward fellow.[2]. Clownish gait.
Edited by Elena
Definition
n. a hanging down loosely of the head or other part: clownish gait: a clown.—v.i. to hang down: to have a clownish look or gait.—v.t. to depress.—n. Slouch′-hat a soft broad-brimmed hat.—p.adj. Slouch′ing walking with a downcast awkward manner: hanging down.—adj. Slouch′y somewhat slouching.
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Examples
- But it shortly became a most lamentable slouch of a journal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It ain't no slouch of a journal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He slouched off across Broadway, and Archer stood looking after him and musing on his last words. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He touched his discoloured slouched hat, as he came in at the door, to a few men who occupied the room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Orlick, with his hands in his pockets, slouched heavily at my side. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The night should have turned more wet since I came in, for he had a large sou'wester hat on, slouched over his face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Within this space, he now slouched backwards and forwards. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was a broadshouldered loose-limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He received that piece of information with a yell of laughter, and dropped back, but came slouching after us at a little distance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He then saw a slouching man of forbidding appearance standing in the midst of the school, with a bundle under his arm; and saw that it was Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mary Chivers was as tall and fair as her mother, but large-waisted, flat-chested and slightly slouching, as the altered fashion required. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The more I dressed him and the better I dressed him, the more he looked like the slouching fugitive on the marshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With the night comes a slouching figure through the tunnel-court to the outside of the iron gate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I asked next after Miss Halcombe, but I was answered in a slouching, sulky way, which left me no wiser than I was before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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