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Definition of Slowback
1. n. A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.
Definition of Slowback
1. Noun. (archaic slang) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slowback
1. a lazy person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowback
Literary usage of Slowback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"... vivacious, frisky, forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, spirited,
in earnest, going ahead. dormouse, slowback, lounger, slug, marmot. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Drone, sluggard, laggard, lounger, dawdler, trifler, doodle, slowback, inefficient
person. Idol, n. I. Pagan, deity, false god. 2. ..."
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