He's a slowpoke.
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Slowpoke
//ˈsloʊˌpoʊk//
Synonyms for "slowpoke" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
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Translations
26 translations across 13 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- мару́да noun (person who moves slowly)
Dutch
1 entries- slome noun (person who moves slowly)
Finnish
2 entries- hidastelija noun (person who moves slowly)
- vätys noun (person who moves slowly)
French
2 entries- escargot noun (person who moves slowly)
- lambin noun (person who moves slowly)
German
2 entries- Trödler noun (person who moves slowly)
- Trödlerin noun (person who moves slowly)
Hawaiian
1 entries- lelemu noun (person who moves slowly)
Latin
1 entries- cunctātor noun (person who moves slowly)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- tregost noun (person who moves slowly)
- treigost noun (person who moves slowly)
Norwegian bokmål
2 entries- tregost noun (person who moves slowly)
- treigost noun (person who moves slowly)
Polish
4 entries- grzebuła noun (person who moves slowly)
- guzdrała noun (person who moves slowly)
- maruda noun (person who moves slowly)
- maruder noun (person who moves slowly)
Russian
2 entries- копуша noun (person who moves slowly)
- тормоз noun (person who moves slowly)
Swedish
2 entries- slöfock noun (person who moves slowly)
- sölkorv noun (person who moves slowly)
Welsh
2 entries- llusgwr noun (person who moves slowly)
- malwod noun (person who moves slowly)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Tom is a slowpoke.
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He's always late. What a slowpoke!
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Hey, you slowpokes in the back! Get a move on!
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