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slounging

slounging is the present participle and gerund of slounge.

Meaning of slounge

Verb

slounge (third-person singular simple present slounges, present participle slounging, simple past and past participle slounged)

  1. (UK, archaic, intransitive) To move in a slouching manner.
    • At this he gathered his mutilated limbs to the centre of gravity, and like a genuine coward slounged away, the express image of baseness in ruins.1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie, page 165

Questions about slounging

What is slounging the present participle and gerund of?
Slounging is the present participle and gerund of slounge.

Words near slounging in the dictionary

  1. sloughs off
  2. sloughy
  3. slounge
  4. slounged
  5. slounges
  6. slounging
  7. Slovack
  8. Slovacks
  9. Slovak
  10. Slovak Cuvac
  11. Slovak Republic

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