slouch

English

From Old Norse slókr (“a slouching, lazy fellow”)[1], (cognate to Swedish sloka, to wilt, slouch.

slouch (plural slouches)

A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
Someone who is slow to act.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
  In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
(dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

hanging down of the head, a drooping posture; limp appearance

Finnish: roikottaminen (hanging down of the head); kyyhöttäminen (drooping posture); velttous (fi), vetelyys (fi) (limp appearance)

any depression or hanging down

someone who is slow to act

awkward, heavy, clownish fellow

slouch (third-person singular simple present slouches, present participle slouching, simple past and past participle slouched)

(intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
Do not slouch when playing a flute.
(intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
(transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
  […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.
- 2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms (page 281)
  Disappointment slouched him into the pew.