单词 | laggard |
释义 | laggardadj.n. A. adj. Lagging, hanging back, loitering, slow. Chiefly of living things, their actions, and attributes. Occasionally of days, time, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > tardy or sluggish lateeOE latredec897 latelyOE slowfulc1400 latesomea1425 languoring?c1425 sluggedc1430 tardy1483 tediousc1485 hooly1513 longsome1543 lingeringa1547 tarde1547 slow-worm1548 tardious?1572 lagging1597 snail-slow1600 snail-paced1601 snail-like1639 languid1646 dilatory1648 sluggish1648 languishing1693 laggard1702 lentitudinous1801 laggardly1826 lag-last1862 slowpoke1872 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane iv. i Tho' Laggard in the Race..I will pursue the shining Path thou tread'st. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 31 [The press-gang lieutenant] beats up all Quarters..and drives the laggard Dog along the Streets, with as much Noise and Bustle, as Butchers do Swine to Smithfield. 1713 J. Hughes Ode to Creator 4 Decrepit Winter, laggard in the Dance..A heavy Season does maintain. 1747 W. Collins Odes 52 Than all which charms this laggard Age. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xviii. 152 And Lennox cheer'd the laggard hounds. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xvi. 235 Ours is a.., laggard obedience at the best. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 91 My heart outruns these laggart limbs. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars iv. 183 The Angel of Death moves at no laggard pace. B. n. One who lags behind; a lingerer, loiterer. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > lagging or falling behind > one who lagger1523 laggard1808 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > tardiness or sluggishness > person sloweOE tarrier1382 sluggard1398 slugc1425 lagger1523 slugger1539 snaila1593 loiterer1684 laggard1808 slowpoke1847 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > sluggishness or heaviness > person sluggard1398 slugc1425 dawa1500 belly huddroun?a1513 slowbelly1526 luggard?1528 heavy arse1530 slugger1539 druggard1569 slowback1577 snaila1593 slugplum1593 druggle1611 dawdlea1764 laggard1808 doldrum1812 dawdler1818 slowcoach1828 lag-last1830 slowpoke1847 morepork1874 slob1876 slow boat to China1919 schlump1941 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xii. 258 A laggard in love, and a dastard in war. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 89 He meant to let the laggards off for a long pull and a hearty fright. 1860 G. Rawlinson tr. Herodotus Hist. IV. ix. lxxvii. 449 They declared themselves to deserve a fine, as laggarts. 1876 P. G. Tait Lect. Recent Adv. in Physical Sci. (ed. 2) x. 259 Formed of the laggards, as it were, which have been thrown out of the race. Derivatives ˈlaggard v. to play the laggard. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] creepc1175 lugc1400 to hold (also keep) foot withc1438 crawlc1460 lounge?a1513 slug1565 drawl1566 draggle1577 fodge1581 snail1582 laggerc1620 slagger1622 snail1628 flod1674 delay1690 to drag one’s slow length along1711 soss1711 loiter1728 trail1744 sidle1781 soodle1821 linger1826 ooze1847 slope1851 laggard1864 dawdle1872 tiddle1882 oozle1958 pootle1973 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. viii. 113 Austrians mainly are gone laggarding with D'Ahremberg up the Rhine. ˈlaggardism n. ΚΠ 1865 Sat. Rev. 19 756/1 The insolent contempt of labour on the one hand, and the petty aping of laggardism and polite inanity on the other. ˈlaggardly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly slacklyc960 latelyOE heavilyc1000 hoolya1340 sluggedlyc1450 sluggishlyc1450 tarryingly1530 loiteringly1547 tediously1557 languishingly1579 limpingly1579 lingeringly1589 unnimbly1607 longsomelyc1610 tardilya1616 a-sluga1620 sluggingly1653 languidly1655 dilatorily1700 heavy1701 lagginglyc1817 laggardly1835 slack1854 slackly1884 logily1912 1835 E. B. Pusey Let. in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. i. 8 [It] hardly seems to come heartily, because it has not come before, but comes laggardly. ˈlaggardness n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > tardiness or sluggishness hoolinessa1340 latesomeness1357 slothc1380 lateshipc1390 lateliness?c1400 sluggednessc1425 slugginessc1450 sluggishnessc1450 tardityc1450 ignavy1543 tardiness1608 lentitude1623 languidness1634 tediousness1691 lentora1763 tarditude1794 laggardness1869 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] > slowness to act retardation1633 dilatoriness1642 tarditude1794 laggardness1869 impromptitude1887 foot-dragging1947 1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness i. 10 That laggardness of will. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1702 |
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