To walk in an ungainly fashion?
Lollop
What about the number Lovers?
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Well, this being my post and having struggled with maths in my early years I have gravitated towards words. 
I am only good at simple addition, having played darts for many years.
So, words it is. 
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Thank you for being so polite in your response, and outlining your reasoning, pity there aren’t more folks like you about 
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Politeness is a trait of mine that I cherish. 
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I love my traits, they have been around for so many years, never Dis your traits.
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Gruntled,no one ever says that,it’s always ,disgruntled which I think means completely gruntled.
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Likewise. Our our lovely postie is similar.
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“Lollop” is a word which was often used in our house. I actually thought it was a word my family invented years ago.
“Lolloping great lump” doesn’t sound very kind now but I heard it used to describe a big, rough lad who spent most of his life sprawled on his mother’s sofa while she ran around seeing to his every need.
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The lad next door was a Lollop and married a Trollop 
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I was always enthralled in the Latin lessons and the way the Latin Mistress (yep, I did type Mistress) would beckon a boy. “Come hither lad and grace my presence”. She was the epitome of olde world politeness as was her fascinating and extensive vocabulary
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We had some great teachers at grammar school who used words that we had never heard of, most of us coming from tiny rural primary schools.
We had French, Spanish and Latin teachers who would pass us in the corridor or outside and use those languages which we thought was wonderful.
We had a teacher who had literally just arrived from India and his Maths knowledge was great but his English was weak. He used to call a mirror a “reflecteur” and had other crazy sayings.
Superfluous, incongruous, facsimile, erroneous, latent, were all words I first heard aged 12. Our English teacher was brilliant and encouraged us all to write down any words in a notebook that we heard or saw and look them up in a dictionary when we got chance and I still occasionally do that to this day.
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If I hear or see a word I do not know the meaning of, I will find out. Called learning, which is a life long exercise. 
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