slouchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /slaʊt͡ʃ/
  • (米国発音, Received Pronunciation) IPA: [slaʊt͡ʃ]
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA: [slawt͡ʃ]
  • (Canada, Boston) IPA: [sləwt͡ʃ]
  • (General Australian) IPA: [slæɔt͡ʃ]
• 韻: -aʊtʃ

名詞

slouch (plural slouches)

1. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance

   He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.

2. Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

   The plant hung in a permanent slouch.

3. Someone who is slow to act.
   • 16 September 2014, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian‎:

     In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.

   Synonyms: idler, loafer, laggard, underachiever

   Synonyms: achiever, go-getter

4. (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

使用する際の注意点

In the sense of "someone who is slow to act", sometimes used in the negative as a statement of praise. Being "no slouch" at something is generally understood to mean that the subject is respectably good in the field described.

派生語

• slouch hat

動詞

slouch (third-person singular simple present slouches, present participle slouching, simple past and past participle slouched)

1. (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture

   Synonyms: stoop, droop, loll, slump

   Do not slouch when playing a flute.

2. (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

   I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.

3. (transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.

   Synonym: sag

   • 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, page 107:

     […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.

   • 2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms, page 281:

     Disappointment slouched him into the pew.

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