Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture.
- v. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
- v. To cause to droop; stoop.
- n. An awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture or gait.
- n. Slang An awkward, lazy, or inept person: good at chess and no slouch at bridge, either.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To droop; hang down loosely.
- To have a clownish or loose ungainly gait, manner, or attitude; walk, sit, or pose in an awkward or loutish way.
- To depress; cause to hang down.
- n. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow; an ungainly clown.
- n. A drooping or depression of the head or of some other part of the body; a stoop; an ungainly, clownish gait.
- n. A depression or hanging down; a droop: as, his hat had a slouch over his eyes.
- n. A slouch-hat.
- n. An inefficient or useless person or thing: usually with a negative, in praise: as, he's no slouch; it's no slouch, I tell you.
Wiktionary
- n. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
- n. any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
- n. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
- v. to hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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. colloq. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
- v. To droop, as the head.
- v. colloq. To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
- v. To cause to hang down; to depress at the side.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions
- v. walk slovenly
- v. assume a drooping posture or carriage
- n. a stooping carriage in standing and walking
Etymologies
- From Old Norse slókr ("a slouching, lazy fellow"), (cognate to Swedish sloka, to wilt, slouch. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is the same Mr. Moss whom Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis assessed as a "slouch" last winter, and the same Mr. Moss who burned Mr. Revis on a touchdown reception during the Jets '28-14 victory over the Patriots on Sept. 19.”
The Wall Street Journal: Jets Call Favre's Era 'Uncomfortable'
“I am looking at this word "slouch" which I have never used like this before.”
“Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday.”
The Huffington Post: Darrelle Revis Criticizes Randy Moss's Effort
“Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.”
The Huffington Post: Darrelle Revis Criticizes Randy Moss's Effort
“I called him a 'slouch' for a reason," Mr. Revis said.”
The Wall Street Journal: An NFL Grudge Match: Revis Vs. Moss
“Mr. Revis called Mr. Moss a "slouch" after shutting him down last year, which may be most civilized piece of trash talk since George Plimpton auditioned with the Lions.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Non-Must-Win the Jets Better Win
“Those who traffic in such talk might call this karma: Mr. Revis had called Mr. Moss a "slouch" in January, sparking a bit of a feud.”
The Wall Street Journal: Jets Dodge Adversity, Down Pats Jets 28, Pats 14
“Mr. Revis had quietly ta unted Mr. Moss, referring to him as a "slouch" and suggesting that the future Hall of Famer would again spend his Meadowlands afternoon languishing on "Revis Island," Mr. Revis's droll term for the way he shuts down pass catchers.”
“The word "slouch," by the way, should always connote movement, not posture.”
“I don't know what we do instead -- we kind of slouch around the living room while we should be making dinner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slouch’.
-
SMILE and other emotive verbs
Single verbs that describe expression or emotional reaction. "He __ed" (smiled/gulped/scoffed...)
smile, beam, sneer, scoff, giggle, laugh, snigger, scowl, grin, leer, wince, grimace and 97 more...
-
movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
-
Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 292 more... -
Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
-
Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
-
Hats Off!
trilby, porkpie, panama, fedora, pillbox, stovepipe, turban, boater, ball cap, pastorella, beret, bowler and 219 more...
-
colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
-
whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
-
artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
-
Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
-
Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
-
...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
-
What Do You Mean @
What Abt these ... :)
somber, self effacing, conundrum, outlandish, mesmerize, endemic, shelve, fledgling, acolyte, absurd, rampant, narcissist and 163 more...
-
Don't Say a Word
Nonverbals!
shrug, wink, smile, pucker, blink, point, nod, gaze, avert, blush, slouch, straighten and 20 more...
-
Lexicon
Non Descript
somber, conundrum, narcissist, ludicrous, garble, slouch, cower, allure, boor, timorous, flinch, mendacity and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for slouch.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.