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English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “possibly "slouch" and "lounge"?”)
Verb
slounge (third-person singular simple present slounges, present participle slounging, simple past and past participle slounged)
- (UK, archaic, intransitive) To move in a slouching manner.
1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie, page 165:At this he gathered his mutilated limbs to the centre of gravity, and like a genuine coward slounged away, the express image of baseness in ruins.
1859, Alexander Walker, Hours off and on Sentry, page 171:hey pass along the streets of our cities, with the slounging gait, and careless, awkward swagger of men who have no idea that personal carriage forms a subject of the slightest importance.
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