- slowpoke (n.)
[slowpoke 词源字典]
- also slow poke, 1848, American English from slow (adj.) + poke (n.3), the name of a device, like a yoke with a pole, attached to domestic animals such as pigs and sheep to keep them from escaping enclosures. Bartlett (1859) calls it "a woman's word."[slowpoke etymology, slowpoke origin, 英语词源]