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slipper-slopper, a. dial. and colloq. rare.
[Redupl. f. slipper n.]
Wearing loose slippers; down-at-heel, sloppy.
1825J. Jennings Observations Dial. W. Eng. 70 Slipper-slopper,..having shoes or slippers down at the heel; loose. 1888F. T. Elworthy West Somerset Wd.-bk. 680 Father, be sure you baint gwain out all slipper-slopper like that. 1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 525/1 Slippers trodden down at the heels are said to be slipper-slopper. 1951J. Frame Lagoon 29 Their shoes were slipper-slopper.
Hence as v. intr., to walk about in loose slippers; also slipper-slopping vbl. n.
1929R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica viii. 192 Jonsen slipper-sloppered up and down his side of the deck. 1933L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall i. i. 13 He was roused from his meditations by a..slipper-slopping on the stairs. |