sloungev.
Scottish and northern dialect.
intransitive. To move, or hang about, in a lazy or slouching manner. The noun slounge or slunge, a slouching fellow, idler, etc., is also current: see the Eng. Dial. Dict.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf
luskc1330
lubber1530
to play the truant, -s1560
lazea1592
lazy1612
meecha1625
lounge1671
saunter1672
sloungea1682
slive1707
soss1711
lolpoop1722
muzz1758
shack1787
hulkc1793
creolize1802
maroon1808
shackle1809
sidle1828
slinge1834
sossle1837
loaf1838
mike1838
to sit around1844
hawm1847
wanton1847
sozzle1848
mooch1851
slosh1854
bum1857
flane1876
slummock1877
dead-beat1881
to lop about1881
scow1901
scowbank1901
stall1916
doss1937
plotz1941
lig1960
loon1969
a1682 F. Sempill Banishm. Poverty in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 13 The Morn I ventur'd up the Wynd, And slung'd in at the Nether-Bow.
1788 J. Macaulay Poems Var. Subj. 151 Thou lazy, slounging, donart sot!
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 143 Ye'd luok but silly slouches,..heame wi' empty pouches, To slounge this day.
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
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