slowcoach
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
slowcoach (plural slowcoaches)
- (informal, UK) A person, especially a child, who moves slowly.
- Synonyms: plodder, sluggard, (North America) slowpoke
- Hey, you slowcoaches at the back! Get a move on!
- 1911, Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Blue Cross:
- They were both very quiet, respectable people; one of them paid the bill and went out; the other, who seemed a slower coach altogether, was some minutes longer getting his things together.
- (informal, UK) A person who is slow on the uptake; one who does not comprehend new ideas quickly.
Translations[edit]
plodder — see plodder
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
- “slowcoach”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.