slow-walk

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process. especially,idiomatic,transitive
    — many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.
  2. To punish, to chastise. transitive

词形变化

slow-walks present,singular,third-person slow-walking participle,present slow-walked participle,past slow-walked past slow walk alternative slow-walks present,singular,third-person slow-walking participle,present slow-walked participle,past slow-walked past

词源

词源 1
Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk".
词源 2
Attested since 1962 in Southern (North and South Carolina) dialects of American English; of unknown origin.
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