slowpoke

See also: slow poke

English

Etymology

From slow +‎ poke.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊˌpoʊk/

Noun

slowpoke (plural slowpokes)

1. (US, Canada, informal, mildly derogatory) A person who moves slowly or takes a long time to do something.

   Hey, you slowpokes in the back! Get a move on!

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

     "Yas'm," said Prissy and, turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait. "Hurry, you slow poke!"

   • 1990, Helen Nearing, Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations‎^[1], Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN:

     Some cooks are diddlers and slowpokes. Some are efficient speed demons.

Synonyms

• plodder
• sluggard
• slowcoach (UK)

Translations

person who moves slowly

• Belarusian: мару́да m or f (marúda)
• Dutch: slome (nl)
• Finnish: hidastelija, vätys (fi)
• French: escargot (fr) m
• German: Trödler (de) m, Trödlerin (de) f
• Latin: cunctātor m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tregost m
• Polish: grzebuła m or f, guzdrała (pl) m or f, maruda (pl) m or f, maruder (pl) m, ślamazara (pl) m or f, ślamazarnik m
• Russian: копуша (ru) m or f (kopuša), тормоз (ru) m (tormoz)
• Swedish: slöfock (sv) c