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Stick-in-the-mud

noun

Someone who moves slowly. Synonyms: plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke.

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"Stick-in-the-mud" Quotes from Famous Books

... us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle. "We wa'n't no hand for strippin' woodland nor even tradin' hosses them first few years. I don' know why 'twas we were so beat out. The best most on us could do was to sag right on to the ...

— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... Valeria asked gaily. "I'm not. Bob was real sweet in his way but he was a real stick-in-the-mud even when ...

— The Last Straw • William J. Smith

... stupid old stick-in-the-mud," cried Tom, "or the fisherman will catch you!" And that was true, for Tom felt some one above beginning to haul up ...

— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

Words linked to "Stick-in-the-mud" : unstylish, lagger, unfashionable, dawdler, poke, laggard, trailer, moss-grown, drone