noun
- Someone who moves slowly.
- usage: "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
adjective
- Used pejoratively. ( out of fashion; old fashioned)
- usage: "moss-grown ideas about family life"
- synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy
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