slouch.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. stand or move or sit in a drooping ungainly fashion.
2 tr. bend one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards (opp. COCK(1)).
3 intr. droop, hang down loosely.

--n.

1 a slouching posture or movement, a stoop.
2 a downward bend of a hat-brim (opp. COCK(1)).
3 sl. an incompetent or slovenly worker or operator or performance.

slouch hat a hat with a wide flexible brim.

slouchy adj. (slouchier, slouchiest). [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

slouch.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. stand or move or sit in a drooping ungainly fashion.
2 tr. bend one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards (opp. COCK(1)).
3 intr. droop, hang down loosely.

--n.

1 a slouching posture or movement, a stoop.
2 a downward bend of a hat-brim (opp. COCK(1)).
3 sl. an incompetent or slovenly worker or operator or performance.

slouch hat a hat with a wide flexible brim.

slouchy adj. (slouchier, slouchiest). [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

slouch.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. stand or move or sit in a drooping ungainly fashion.
2 tr. bend one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards (opp. COCK(1)).
3 intr. droop, hang down loosely.

--n.

1 a slouching posture or movement, a stoop.
2 a downward bend of a hat-brim (opp. COCK(1)).
3 sl. an incompetent or slovenly worker or operator or performance.

slouch hat a hat with a wide flexible brim.

slouchy adj. (slouchier, slouchiest). [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

slouch.html - n.
a swamp; a miry place; a quagmire.

Slough of Despond a state of hopeless depression (with ref. to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress).

sloughy adj. [OE sloh, slo(g)]

slouch.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a part that an animal casts or moults, esp. a snake's cast skin.
2 dead tissue that drops off from living flesh etc.
3 a habit etc. that has been abandoned.

--v.

1 tr. cast off as a slough.
2 intr. (often foll. by off) drop off as a slough.
3 intr. cast off a slough.
4 intr. (often foll. by away, down) (of soil, rock, etc.) collapse or slide into a hole or depression.

sloughy adj. [ME, perh. rel. to LG slu(we) husk]

slouch.html - {n.}, {informal} A slowly increasing feeling of anger. * /The boys kept teasing John, and watched him do a slow burn./ * /Barbara's slow burn ended only when Mary explained the misunderstanding./