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slouch
English
Etymology
From Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“a slouching, lazy fellow”), cognate to Swedish sloka (“to wilt, slouch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?t??/
- Rhymes: -a?t?
Noun
slouch (plural slouches)
- A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
- He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
- Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
- The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
- Someone who is slow to act.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
Derived terms
- slouch hat
Translations
Verb
slouch (third-person singular simple present slouches, present participle slouching, simple past and past participle slouched)
- (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
- Do not slouch when playing a flute.
- (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
- I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
- (transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
- […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.
- 2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms (page 281)
- Disappointment slouched him into the pew.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
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swagger
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?swæ?.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?swæ?.?/
- Rhymes: -æ??(r)
Etymology 1
A frequentative form of swag (“to sway”), first attested in 1590, in A Midsummer Night's Dream III.i.79:
- PUCK: What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?
Verb
swagger (third-person singular simple present swaggers, present participle swaggering, simple past and past participle swaggered)
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- 1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
- To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier’s Letters, Dublin and London, 1730, Letter 1, p. 14,[1]
- For the common Soldier when he goes to the Market or Ale-house will offer this Money, and if it be refused, perhaps he will SWAGGER and HECTOR, and Threaten to Beat the BUTCHER or Ale-Wife, or take the Goods by Force, and throw them the bad HALF-PENCE.
- 1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
- To walk with a swaying motion.
Derived terms
- swaggerer
- swaggeringly
- swagger it
- aswagger
Translations
Noun
swagger (countable and uncountable, plural swaggers)
- Confidence, pride.
- A bold or arrogant strut.
- A prideful boasting or bragging.
Translations
Adjective
swagger (comparative more swagger, superlative most swagger)
- (slang, archaic) Fashionable; trendy.
- 1899, Robert Barr, Jennie Baxter, Journalist
- It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.
- 15 March, 1896, Ernest Rutherford, letter to Mary Newton
- Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.
- 1908, Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner
- Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.
- 1899, Robert Barr, Jennie Baxter, Journalist
Etymology 2
Noun
swagger (plural swaggers)
- (Australia, New Zealand, historical) Synonym of swagman
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