slowcoach

English

Etymology

From slow +‎ coach.

Noun

slowcoach (plural slowcoaches)

1. (informal, UK, Ireland) 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.

2. (informal, UK, Ireland) A person who is slow on the uptake; one who does not comprehend new ideas quickly.

Translations

plodder — see plodder

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
• “slowcoach”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.