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单词 laggard
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laggardadj.n.

Brit. /ˈlaɡəd/, U.S. /ˈlæɡərd/
Forms: Also 1800s laggart.
Etymology: < lag v.1 + -ard suffix.
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).
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