Meanings
nounslowpoke (plural slowpokes)
plural slowpokes
- CanadaUSderogatoryinformalmildlyA person who moves slowly or takes a long time to do something.
Hey, you slowpokes in the back! Get a move on!
2 more examples
"Yas'm," said Prissy and, turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait. "Hurry, you slow poke!"
1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLCSome cooks are diddlers and slowpokes. Some are efficient speed demons.
1990, Helen Nearing, Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Dutch slome
- slomeperson who moves slowly
Finnish hidastelija, vätys
- hidastelijaperson who moves slowly
- vätysperson who moves slowly
French escargot, lambin
- escargotperson who moves slowly
- lambinperson who moves slowly
German Trödler, Trödlerin
- Trödlerperson who moves slowly
- Trödlerinperson who moves slowly
Hawaiian lelemu
- lelemuperson who moves slowly
Latin cunctātor
- cunctātorperson who moves slowly
Norwegian Nynorsk tregost, treigost
- tregostperson who moves slowly
- treigostperson who moves slowly
Norwegian bokmål tregost, treigost
- tregostperson who moves slowly
- treigostperson who moves slowly
Polish grzebuła, guzdrała
- grzebułaperson who moves slowly
- guzdrałaperson who moves slowly
- marudaperson who moves slowly
- maruderperson who moves slowly
- ślamazaraperson who moves slowly
- ślamazarnikperson who moves slowly
Russian копуша, тормоз
- копуша (kopuša)person who moves slowly
- тормоз (tormoz)person who moves slowly
Swedish slöfock, sölkorv
- slöfockperson who moves slowly
- sölkorvperson who moves slowly
Welsh llusgwr, malwod
- llusgwrperson who moves slowly
- malwodperson who moves slowly
Cite this entry
APA
slowpoke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slowpoke
MLA
“slowpoke.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slowpoke. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slowpoke,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slowpoke.
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