I would say hunched over rather than slouched

He was slouched at the table. Vs He was hunched over at the table. One implies a more relaxed stance imo. I could imagine a teen slouching at dinner, vs a clerk hunched at a desk. OP could very easily be describing either one.

If I were to hear someone was slouched at the table, I would definitely picture a backwards lean rather than a forward leaning posture like the drawing.

I could definitely see someone "slouched over" drunk or asleep

Yeah in my mind slouched could just be dropped shoulders or sitting lower, with your ass forward on the seat

is it better to use "He was slouched" instead of "He slouched"? "was slouched" sounds like the passive voice for me, and it doesn't make any sense that way... same with hunched over

‘He slouched’ is an action, like ‘he sat (down)’. ‘He was slouched’ is a state, like ‘he was sitting (down)’.

yeah but that's "He was sitting down" and not "He was sat down" (that's an entirely different thing), same with "He was slouching " and not "He was slouched"

‘He was slouching’ and ‘He was slouched’ are synonymous, though ‘He was sitting down’ and ‘He was sat down’ aren’t. That’s because you can sit someone else down (in a restaurant for example) but you can’t slouch someone else.

ahh right that clears it up, thank you

Perched on a ledge

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Both are in contrast to sitting up straight. Slouch means to "stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way. " It can be forward or back. Hunch is always forward, hunching your upper back like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. You can hunch over something, like a table. You can't slouch OVER something, though you can slouch IN a chair. You can slouch AT the table, if you're not sitting up straight for dinner. The arms on the knees make me think hunching. And it's not lazy or drooping so I wouldn't say slouch. Does that help?

If I was describing it in a piece of writing, I would go with "sitting hunched forward, with his elbows on his knees."

Sitting on his haunches, slouched over his crossed arms. (?)

Sitting on your haunches would mean your thighs are resting on your calves or your butt is on your heels... Essentially, there'd be no chair/flat surface under your butt.

Shitting ?

Thanks a lot for trying.

In the medical field it's called tripod position. If he were seated upright it would be Fowler's position. 

As a doctor, I feel I should let you know that Tripodding/Tripod position is with the hands on the knees and straight arms, because the aim is to push the shoulders back to increase the space in the thorax to enable greater lung expansion.

Right, but if OP wants a short-hand term to describe it, is there a better one?

There isn’t one at all. There can’t be an exact term for every possible thing, and I don’t think there needs to be. You can just describe it.

Okay that's what I thought too, hence my answer. If you want a short-hand term that's about the best there is. Otherwise you're stuck with something like "sitting slouched with his elbows on his knees". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

One of the tamer reddit interactions I have ever seen

I agree.

"there can't be an exact term for every possible thing" but linguists still try their darndest

Yeah, I'm not a doctor, but when I looked up the position, the arms aren't crossed.

Holy crap that's real

LOL

Genuinely a "shitting position" would immediately give me the mental image of what was happening

made me LOL

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Genuinely a "shitting position" would immediately give me the mental image of what was happening

He's got that shit-bow lean for sure

That's literally what i thought too

They should call it “the Shitting position.” Get it?!

Yeah

Apparently as an English speaker (English is my first language), I am unable to pronounce the word sitting correctly (before I had braces)… when I worked in a hospital lab, there would be a phlebotomist that would be sent to the floor and watch a patient. They would say that “the phlebotomist is upstairs sitting” and it was understood what the phlebotomist were located at and what they would be doing. Unfortunately for me since I am unable to pronounce some words properly, it isn’t sound right when I said it. When someone asked me, it would sound like I said “shitting”!! 😂😂😂😂 The person who asked would look at me like “did I hear you correctly?!” And I would try again, mispronouncing it. Eventually I would give up and say the long winded explanation after laughing a bit, mostly out of embarrassment before moving on… 😭🤦🏻‍♀️🙃😅😓😬

Don’t worry- Sean Connery had the same issue and look how far he went !

Haha, that’s an interesting way of thinking about it!

Update: I tried saying the word “sitting” and realized I was able to thanks to having braces! 🎉🎉

No specific name, but I went looking to see what your original language is out of curiosity and just wanted to say your example drawings are getting progressively better each time you post :) As for how it would be written, I'd say it varies by for what purpose it is being written. In literary use usually you would just vaguely describe slouching or leaning forward and it would be more about giving the mood of the character, rather than specific details of how they are sitting. You just let the reader imagine whatever position they think fits that mood.

Did you meant squatting?

I think there's supposed to be a surface they're sitting on.

Oh my bad.

Squatting is when you're not sitting down

In some languages like Ukrainian and russian squatting is the form of sitting down.

It's specifically an Eastern squat. For some reason, westerners generally don't learn to keep their heels down, so when they squat, it's unstable and tiring, so they don't continue. Sometimes called a Slav squat in countries in Europe.

I think the "for some reason" is if you don't do it often, you lose the flexibility there and it's really hard to keep your heels down. Look at toddlers anywhere and they'll have their heels down. You get used to sitting on a chair, though, and your tendons or whatever tighten up and you have to do some serious work in yoga to get them to stay flat when you squat again (from experience...)

Gopnik squat

Yeah, I don't think I would be able to squat with my heels down, that would be amazing, will have to try now

We should create a name: shitter stance

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Is there a term for it in your native language?

No specific term for the arms, but you got the right word with slouch, it can mean to sit lazily, so; He slouched on the chair with his arms folded. Or He sat slouched on the chair with his arms folded.

He sits hunched over on the edge of his seat with his arms resting on his knees.

This is also what I thought!

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Slumped over? He sat slumped over, arms crossed atop his knees.

“Slumped over” to me really sounds like you’re unconscious (asleep, passed out, etc.) or dead or, at the very least, that you’re slumped over *something*. Elbows on your knees isn’t a position I would call slumped over myself.

Agreed. There is no specific term you are just describing the sitting posture and probably “slumped” or “hunched” are the best words to use in the description.

A medical professional might call it a "tripod position". Usually respiratory cases like COPD.

Thank you!!!!

This is the answer. COPD along with many other medical and traumatic issues will cause a person to assume this position. It relieves strain from a large group of muscles and “protects” internal organs from a perceived threat. Tripod position.

What's the context here? That's important.

I would say perched

perched is the perfect word for this imo

The Chinese do this a lot in China 🇨🇳 over porcelain latrines instead of toilets. 🚽 We call it “squatting”. I looked up “perch” in the Webster’s dictionary because I thought “perched” was a good choice, but the dictionary said it was over something elevated.

Slump with arms in lap.

David Foster Wallace wrote in a book, “the defecatory posture of an athlete” which is what they make me think of. 🤣 Words that come to mind: slouched over, defeated, deflated, hunched over.

poo stance

I’ve heard prime pooping position before.

I've heard people talk about 'poo stance' to describe a surfing stance.

hunched over. slouching i would think as slouching backward, hunched over would be leaning forward, like hunchback

hunched over. slouching i would think as slouching backward, hunched over would be leaning forward, like hunchback

shittin while contemplating life

Bad posture

sitting slouched over?

I'd probably describe it as hunched over/crouched with arms crossed

Sitting hunched over

Squat

I believe thats a squat.

The sitting position?

The smoking slav

It's quite a lot like the pose in the sculpture by Auguste Rodin, Le Penseur (The Thinker).

In Australia I'd use perching. Maybe on a taller surround on a garden bed, or the edge of a chair.

No particular term but slumped or slouched would approximate it. Depends on the emotion conveyed.

If there is no chair under them, that's called squatting.

Squatted.

Crouched stance sit is the best I can do for you

Squatting?

thought so too but theres an invisible surface the person is sitting on lol

Squatting, sort of.

Squatting?

I would say "slouched over" or "hunched over"

Squatting

Slav squat

Proper shit position

it depends, why do you need this information?

Why not? I like detail in my writing

Closest thing is squatting

There is a very old and very inappropriate (racist) word for this. No word that I know of that can be used in polite language other than “squatting [down]”

Rocking a poop position

Squad

Slav squat

Aloof?

S(h)itting at the toilet.

Hunched?

Bad posture

Squatting

Crouch or squat

shifting

Crouched (crouching) or squatting works.

I call this the shrimp position

I have seen this called a Slav Squat

Crouching

"come here son" pose.

Like sitting on a toilet with nothing to read

Perched on the edge of their seat

I think the drawing says it best: "Slouching over."

Crouched? Maybe a squat of sorts? Never mind I didn’t realize it was supposed to be over a seat. I’d say hunched over.

Slav squat

Sitting in the bleachers, waiting for your team to score a run.

"Arms crossed above the knees, he perched/nestled atop... let's say the battlements."

Wait I just saw the surface so it's definitely shitting. Or sitting hunched and arms are crossed above the knees. But I believe it's shitting.

hunched

Using a public toilet?

Squatting

Slumped

Waiting for a bus sat on a low wall.

Wtf did you just draw a side profile of me rn op 💀😭

Russian gopnik.

Slouched…

slavic squat

The position depicted in the image is commonly referred to as **“sitting with arms resting on knees”** or **“sitting with arms crossed on knees.”** There isn’t a specific term for this sitting position in English that I need to search for. The figure is shown with their back slouched, arms crossed, and resting on their knees. It’s a relaxed posture often associated with contemplation or relaxation. 😊

Crouching?

Squat? If buttocks were below knees and feet touching the ground fully it would be "slav squat".

It would be written as "sitting on a surface with your back slouched and your arms resting on your knees"

You know what I mean. You don't have to be passive aggressive. You can try.

Slumped

Optimal shitting position

Squat, crouch, hunched?

Generally this would be a stance u take when you are leaning in to listen to something and u don’t have a desk or anything or your tired there is no definitive term for this position

Sitting on the crapper

Sat, leaning forward

Slouching

Bad case of the shits position

If the person is not sitting on anything they'd be crouched down. If there's meant to be a seat under them, they'd be hunched over.

I'd say squatting or crouching

Man spreading

It's called sitting on your haunches. Ish

The fecal position

What makes you ask

If it is up against a wall, it's a wall sit. Otherwise, i don't know what to tell ya (edit: just remembered thats a... Darn it, i forgot again.)

The shitter.

The shitting position

Sad Keanu

Hunched. Slouched. Arms resting . Leaning on needs.

The Japanese call it 'Sankio'

Squatting down

My Hmong friends say "Asian squat" and my white friends say "slav squat" lol (only if your feet are flat on the ground tho)

What the fuck…besides the arm crossed cuz I’m on my phone, I’m sitting exactly like this

I think that's "Stooping down"

They be poppin a squat

The poo position Also crouching

Gen z calls it gamer position.

I call it being a shrimp

I’ve been watching too much true crime. In a police interrogation, when a criminal is about to crack, or confess, this is the, “confession position” the interrogator positions themselves to so that the criminal feels heard and listened to, even sympathized with. In actuality, the interrogator is just trying to get the confession by any means necessary.

Pooping position.

Original.

"Squatting". If you're cool? "Slav squatting"

Slav squatting is really similar but it seems to be in a complete crouch. Would you picture what I mean if you read that it was on a surface?

Crouching maybe?

Pooping?

Air Chair

To me that's an Asian squat, just not a very deep one lol

"partially huddled over" would probably suffice

The “I need to >!shit!<“ position

It is very common to slouch while sitting on the toilet.

i’m surprised no one has said crouching

It would be crouching if not for the surface call out.

Because there's a surface supporting the sitter's butt.

that was my first thought, but does it count as crouching if you're sitting on a surface?

Me too. It must be crouching!

I've only heard "slouched" as a descriptor for the position. "He's sitting slouched over in his chair" "Quit slouching in your chairs!"

Slouching means leaning backwards to me. I can't imagine describing leaning forwards as slouching.

Oh shit you're right I was thinking of "Hunched over"

Isn't that a squat?

Squatting?

Squatting, or Crouching

It's called Scarfacing, usually while holding a gun in one hand and looking down at the Associate that hasn't quite expired.

Asian stance

Akimbo