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slipshod, a.|ˈslɪpʃɒd|
Also 6 slippeshood, 7 slip-sho'd, 7– slip-shod.
[f. slip v.1 + shod ppl. a., after slip-shoe.]
1. Wearing slippers or very loose shoes, in later use esp. such as are down at the heel. Also fig.
pred.1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 334 Thinking it.. if one suffer you to treade awry, no shame to goe slipshad [sic; 1581 slippeshood]. 1605Shakes. Lear i. v. 12 Thy wit shall not go slip-shod. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 220 Another durst not stay to tye his shooes, But slip-sho'd hobbl'd, lest he Breakfast loose. 1747Francis tr. Horace, Ep. ii. i. 233 Dossennus slip-shod shambles o'er the Scene. 1781Cowper Hope 75 To rise at noon, sit slipshod and undress'd. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 340 One of those..who shuffle thro' the serious duties of life—slip⁓shod. 1851Melville Whale xv. 74 With each foot in a cod's decapitated head and looking very slip-shod.
attrib.1607Middleton Your Five Gallants iii. v, Out a' th' house, you slipshod, sham-legged..rascal! 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. liv. 236 Here enter not vile bigots, hypocrites,..Slipshod caffards. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 15 A slip⁓shod Sibyl led his steps along. 1781Cowper Truth 144 The shiv'ring urchin,..With slip-shod heels. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxii, At intervals were heard the tread of slipshod feet. 1840― Old C. Shop xxxiv, Dick..descried a small slipshod girl in a dirty coarse apron and bib. 1887Sir R. H. Roberts In the Shires i. 9 A sliphsod stable-helper holds the hired horse by the head.
transf.1861Sala Dutch Pictures vi. 76 All you hear of her [is]..the slipshod scuffling of her shoes about the house.
b. Of shoes: Loose or untidy; in bad condition; down at the heel.
1687A. Lowell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 37 As they do who go with their shoes slipshod. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xvii, His feet were thrust into old slip-shod shoes, which served him instead of slippers. 1848Dickens Dombey vi, The slipshod shoes.
c. In shabby condition.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, A sort of appendix to the half⁓bound and slip-shod volumes of the circulating library.
2. fig. Slovenly, careless:
a. Of style or language.
1815L. Hunt Notes Feast Poets 47 Between the lameness of Cowper and the slip-shod vigour of Churchill. 1831Croker Boswell's Johnson I. 417 The following slipshod but characteristic epitaph. a1861Clough Poems, etc. (1869) I. 331 The fashionable jargon of the day..seems to have been a sort of slipshod English, continually helped out with the newest French phrases. 1891Spectator 18 Apr., Her style is occasionally slipshod, so much so that in certain passages it is difficult to discover the nominative.
absol.1842J. Sterling Ess. (1848) I. 436 In the latter half of the poem,..the lax shapelessness of structure, the endless slipshod,..become very disagreeable.
b. Of statements, arguments, etc., or of writers in respect of these.
1837Howitt Rur. Life (1842) 479 You also find..even more slipshod writers just as much in vogue. 1859Kingsley Misc. I. 63 This is the sort of slipshod dilemma by which Elizabeth is proved to be wrong. 1877Conder Basis of Faith iv. 183 The slipshod inaccuracy of those who really know better.
c. Of habits, methods, etc.
1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 204 Men..who lead a sort of facile, slipshod existence, doing nothing, yet mightily interested in what others do. 1863Ansted Ionian Isl. 193 The case is singularly illustrative of the slipshod and unpractical habits of the people. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xi, She reigned supreme in a slip-shod household.
Hence ˈslipshoddiness; ˈslipshoddy a.; ˈslipshodism; ˈslipshodness.
a1849Poe Marginalia Wks. 1864 III. 583 The *slipshodiness is so thoroughly in unison with the nonchalant air of the thoughts. 1887Jrnl. Education Dec. 520 The chief fault..was the ‘scrappiness’ and ‘slipshoddiness’ of the answers.
1882Spectator 22 Apr. 534 Such *slipshoddy statements may be of little account.
1897Naturalist 269 *Slipshodisms in phrase abound.
a1877Bagehot Lit. Studies & Mem. (1879) I. p. xlvi, A number of small inaccuracies, harshnesses and *slipshodnesses in style. 1883American VI. 183 A continual confusion, largely due to bad writing, careless proof-reading, and other slip-shodness. |