slowcoach

IPA: sɫˈoʊkoʊtʃ

(informal, UK) A person, especially a child, who moves slowly.
(informal, UK) A person who is slow on the uptake; one who does not comprehend new ideas quickly.

Examples of "slowcoach" in Sentences

“I shall be angry if the old slowcoach is late,” said another.
"Grant isn't such a slowcoach as McClellan was, either, " Hill persisted.
Mr Pickles criticised the "slowcoach" councils which had not yet published the information.
Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach.
Strolling, muscle-bound, almost entirely inflexible slowcoach Michael Ballack could be off to Schalke.
The improvised old woman, I remember, got the name of slowcoach between us, and continued for perhaps three weeks or more.
I shall be pontificating on this at some stage - but don't hold your breath I'm a slowcoach when it comes to formulating a blog entry.
They didn't know, of course, that Clubfoot, the old slowcoach, who is past his work, was aware of this already, and had made his plans accordingly.
The most amusing thing about this whole deal is that I am such a slowcoach on uphills that the GRD doesn't even break into a trot to keep up with me.
But the gentleman was in a hurry; the gentleman always is; he could not wait for that old slowcoach of a Clubfoot to mature his plans for getting into England, securing the document, and getting out again.