slounge

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “possibly "slouch" and "lounge"?”)

Verb

slounge (third-person singular simple present slounges, present participle slounging, simple past and past participle slounged)

1. (UK, archaic, intransitive) To move in a slouching manner.
   • 1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie, page 165:

     At this he gathered his mutilated limbs to the centre of gravity, and like a genuine coward slounged away, the express image of baseness in ruins.

   • 1859, Alexander Walker, Hours off and on Sentry, page 171:

     [T]hey pass along the streets of our cities, with the slounging gait, and careless, awkward swagger of men who have no idea that personal carriage forms a subject of the slightest importance.

Anagrams

• lounges, lugeons