Where does “slacker” come from?
Slacker comes from English slack plus the agent noun suffix -er, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂ through Latin -arius and -are, Old French -er, and Chinese 兒.
slacker (English): One who procrastinates or is lazy; A person...
Definitions
- One who procrastinates or is lazy; A person...
Ancestry of “slacker”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | slack | The part of anything that hangs loose, having no... |
| 2 | Middle English | slak | — |
| 3 | Old English | slæc | lazy |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | slakaz | slack, lax |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)leh₁g- | weak, feeble; weak, faint |
Words derived from “slacker”