Wednesday's Random Slang-o-rama: Slowpoke

Well, this particular Wednesday sort of snuck up on me... I'm such a slowpoke!

Hmmmmm. Slowpoke. Where did that originate from, I wonder?

And when I wonder, I begin to wander....

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American Slang, 2nd Edition, by Robert L. Chapman, has this to say:

slowpoke (by 1848): A slow, sluggish, slothful person [from slow used for vowel rhyme with the early-1800s poke, "behave dilatorily, potter, saunter," perhaps influenced by 16th-century slowback, "sluggard"]

I guess I'll just saunter along, then...