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Meanings of slowpoke in English
Synonyms
Examples for "plodder"
Examples for "plodder"
1
He was what you might call a plodder-youmight call him that.
2
There's nothing brilliant about me, dear-I'ma plodder, feeling my way along.
3
I couldn't see a flat-cap so I approached the nearest plodder.
4
Nevertheless, he was himself no plodder when plodding had ceased to be necessary.
5
I realize this portrays you as the romantic figure and me as the plodder.
1
I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble.
2
Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach.
3
What is more, it made Chris Tavaré up the other end look a bit of a slowcoach.
4
Come on, slowcoach, get moving, can't you?
5
But in this new family animation Turbo, we see an evolutionary process in Hollywood's sentimental admiration for the slowcoach underdog.
1
But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
2
Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
3
Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
4
I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
5
Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
Usage of slowpoke in English
1
The slowpoke cast a furtive glance at the nearby entrance door.
2
But first they have to get the little slowpoke up here.
3
In fact, it's going to be us slowpoke humans who really slow the process down.
4
I waited for her to call me "slowpoke" or "snail face" or something.
5
You rise from the monitor with a reckless, risky plan already congealing in your slowpoke brain.
6
Ebbie, his lips already smeared blue, turns to T.J. "Go on downstreet and get the slowpoke."
7
Try to hit me, slowpoke.
8
I had shot up three inches since joining the band, but when it came to hair, I was a slowpoke.
9
Crawly Slowpoke Junior he called the cicada with a bent wing.
10
The two of them running on the Marwyn trail, the other slowpokes far back in the distance.
11
In a singsong voice she called, "Slowpoke, slowpoke, you're so slow it ain't no joke."
12
But cherry trees, those are slowpokes.
13
"Hurry up, slowpokes," said Grace Harlowe, popping her head in the door.
14
"I won because I'm a superior hopper and you are a slowpoke."
15
"Come on, slowpoke," she called, turning to hurry Meredith along.
16
"You're being slowpokes!" Lex straightened and clapped her hands again.
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Frequent collocations
Slowpoke through the time