adj
Covered (with or in something slithering or slippery).
adj
Trodden excessively; trodden again and again.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To hide oneself; skulk.
n
The act of one who doles.
adj
Alternative form of down at heel [(literally, of footwear) In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby.]
v
(idiomatic) To procrastinate, put off; to dawdle, avoid, or make progress slowly and reluctantly.
v
Synonym of drag one's feet
v
To deliberately hold up progress by acting slowly.
v
(intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
v
(UK dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To submit to one's fate.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.
v
To move or travel slowly.
v
To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
v
Obsolete form of droil. [To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.]
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To fail in health.
v
To evade work or shirk responsibility.
v
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
n
(slang) A misstep; a faux pas.
n
An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
adj
(idiomatic) Slow-moving.
v
(intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
v
To crawl or creep slowly.
v
(slang) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
v
To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To move or proceed irregularly.
v
(intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.
adj
(sports, originally baseball, Canada, US) relaxed
v
(intransitive, archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
v
(transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
v
(intransitive, usually of a group of people) To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.
adj
Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
n
A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
adj
(UK, dialect) slippery; smooth
v
(transitive, dated) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste.
v
Alternative form of SLERP [(mathematics, computing) To interpolate by using SLERP.]
n
(US, dialect) A children's playground slide.
adj
(informal) Tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.
v
(intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
n
(countable) A furtive sneaking motion.
adj
(slightly informal) Slippery.
adj
Tending to flop or slide about.
n
The act of one who slithers.
v
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
n
An act or an instance of slogging or working laboriously.
v
(colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
v
(intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
v
(transitive, by extension) To obstruct by delaying; to slow-walk.
v
(intransitive, informal) To slump or slouch.
n
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
v
To slither, slide or slip
v
To move or travel very slowly.
v
To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To rove; to ramble.
n
(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
v
(intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
v
Alternative spelling of stymie [To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.]
adv
(now chiefly dialectal) Severely; strongly.
n
Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
n
(informal) A difficult puzzle or problem.
v
To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
adj
Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.
v
(obsolete) To decline away from.
n
One who or that which sways something.
n
Violent and general destruction.
n
Obsolete spelling of throat [The front part of the neck.]
n
(idiomatic) A difficult position.
adj
(archaic) Characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble
n
One who veers, or swerves away.
n
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
n
(Scotland, slang) A child.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To waste.
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