slowcome n also slocum [phonetics unavailable]. Cp EDD ~ 'a lagging, stupid, lazy fellow' D Co.
1 A small cod-fish, not large enough to split; LEGGY, ROUNDER (1968 Avalon Penin of Nfld 112).
P 243-73 [At Bay Roberts they call] a small cod-fish a Slocum.
2 Nickname for resident of a section of Herring Neck.
T 172/3-65 When I was a boy they had a name on all those people. There was always a contention between the Herring Neck people and the slowcomes—they were the slowcomes down there.
