4. (common).—A slouch-hat (i.e., a hat with a broad and drooping brim).
1818. Scott, Midlothian, xliii. Even the old hat looked smarter . . . instead of slouching backward or forward on the laird's head, as it was thrown on. Ibid., iii. A sailor's cap slouched over his face.
1871. Scribner's Mag., Sep. A big, farmer-looking fellow in a slouch-hat.
1889. Harper's Mag., lxxix. 38. Middle-aged men in slouch hats lounge around with hungry eyes.
SLOUR, adv. (Old Cant).—'To lock
up; to fasten; to button up one's
coat; to make all secure' (Grose).
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. v. No slour'd hoxter my snipes could stay.
Slow, subs. (old colloquial).—A
sluggard; a lazybones.
[?]. M.S. Douce, 52 [Halliwell]. Lothe to bedde and lothe fro bedde, men schalle know the slow.
Adv. (colloquial).—1. Stupid; spiritless; tedious.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, xlix. The party was what you young fellows call slow.
186[?]. F. Locker, Reply to a Letter. The girls I love now vote me slow.
1874. Siliad, 97. Whither shall we go? The Judge and Jury? No, that's awful slow.
2. (Winchester).—Ignorant of Winchester notions (q.v.).
Slow-back, subs. phr. (old).—A
loafer.
1619. Favour, Antiq. Triumph over Novelty, 63. The slow-backs and lazie bones uill none of this.
Slowcoach, subs. (colloquial).—1.
A dullard; a lout. Also (2) a
dawdler. Hence (3) an antique;
a fossil.
1857. E. B. Ramsay, Scottish Life and Character, 114. I dare say the girl you are sending will be very useful to us: our present one is a very slow-coach.
Slow-up, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A
slackening of speed. Also as
verb. = to go easy.
Slubberdegullion, subs. (old).—'A
slovenly, dirty, nasty Fellow'
(B. E. and Grose). Also Slabberdegullion.
As adj. = paltry,
dirty.
1619. Fletcher, Custom of the Country, i. 2. Yes, they are knit; but must this slubberdegullion Have her maidenhead now?
1630. Taylor, Laugh and be Fat, 73. Contaminous, pestiferous, preposterous, stygmatical slavonians, slubberdegullions.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, i. xxv. Calling them . . . slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubbardly louts. . .
1656. Mus. Del., 79. He's an oxe, and an asse, and a slubberdegullion.
1663. Butler, Hudibras, i. iii. 885. Thow hast deserved, Base slubberdegullion, to be served As thou didst vow to deal with me.
Slued. See Slewed.
Slug, subs. (old colloquial).—Generic
for sloth. Thus (1) = a
drone, a lazybones: also slug-a-*bed,
and (now accepted) sluggard;
2. (old) = a hindrance;
and (3) = a slow-paced boat, horse,
&c., or (B. E.) a dull-edged tool.
As adj. (also sluggish and
sluggy) = lazy, slow; as verb. =
(1) to laze, and (2) to hinder.
1383. Chaucer, Cant. Tales, 'The Parson's Tale.' Then cometh . . . sluggy slumbring which maketh a man hevy.
1440. Prompt. Parv., 460. Sluggyn, desidio, torpeo.
14[?]. Political Poems [E. E. T. S.], 32. The slugge lokyth to be holpe of God that commawndyth men to waake in the worlde.
1590. Spenser, Fairy Queen, ii. i. 23, 3. To slug in slouth and sensuall delights. Ibid. (d. 1599), State of Ireland. He lay not all night slugging in a cabin under his mantle.
