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▪ I. slip-slop, n.|ˈslɪpslɒp|
Also 7 (8 Sc.) -slap, 9– slipslop.
[f. slop n.2, with variation of vowel. In sense 2 with allusion to the mistakes in language made by Mrs. Slipslop in Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742).]
1. A sloppy compound used as a food, beverage, or medicine.
1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 49 No, thou shalt feed, instead of these, Or your slip-slap of Curds and Whey, On Nectar and Ambrosia. 1683Tryon Way to Health 241 Such Cordials, and other compounded Slip-slops as the Sick are forced continually to swallow down. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 151 To run to Apothecaries Shops for this or that whimsical Slip-slop, which may be told him as a Nostrum. 1754Connoisseur No. 19, When the jellies and slip-slops were coming in, the beef was carried off. 1796M. Robinson Angelina I. 148, I hate slip-slops, I never taste tea. 1821Combe Syntax, Search Wife i. (Chandos) 260 At length the coffee was announc'd,..‘And since the meagre slip-slop's made, I think the call should be obey'd’.
2. a. A blunder in the use of words, esp. the ludicrous misuse of one word for another; the habit of making mistakes of this nature.
1788F. Burney Diary 8 Jan., Then he told us a great number of comic slip-slops of the first Lord Baltimore, who made a constant misuse of one word for another. 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 220 One of the party (amongst other slipslops) saying instead of Pasticcios, he liked Pistachios. 1837J. Morier Abel Allnutt xxxii. 187 Mrs. Goold Woodby would usually exert her talent in slip-slop, by calling the last [sc. Curius Dentatus] ‘Curious 'tatoes’.
b. A person given to making such blunders.
a1791Grose Olio xxii. 93 These slip-slops are frequently of the rank he has drawn his lady. 1857Lady Canning in Hare Two Noble Lives (1893) II. 202 What by some old official slip-slop is called Provincial (meaning Provisional) Commander-in-Chief.
3. a. Twaddle; loose or trifling talk or writing.
1811J. Creevey in C. Papers (1904) I. vii. 149 No one observation the Regent has made yet out of the commonest slip-slop. 1861Thackeray Four Georges iv. (1862) 185 Some man..cleaned up the slovenly sentences, and gave the lax maudlin slipslop a sort of consistency. 1886Athenæum 30 Oct. 559/3 In..his history this style is wanting, and is replaced by modern slipslop.
b. A tag or phrase.
1823Byron Juan xiii. xlvii, ‘Cosi viaggino i Ricchi!’ (Excuse a foreign slipslop now and then).
4. a. U.S. (See quot.)
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 416 Slip-slops, old shoes turned down at the heel.
b. A kind of beach sandal; = flip-flop n. f. Chiefly S. Afr.
1971Studies in English (Univ. Cape Town) Feb. 29 Beach-thongs, sandles [sic] made of rubber..have a great many names here—sloppies, slip-slops, plakkies, etc. 1974‘G. Black’ Golden Cockatrice iv. 66, I couldn't believe they had my shoe size too, almost relieved to find only a pair of slip-slops. 1976J. McClure Rogue Eagle ii. 31 Knotted blouse, blue jeans and slip-slop sandals.
Hence ˈslip-ˌsloppery, slipslop condition or methods; ˈslip-ˌsloppish a., of the nature of slip-slop; ˈslip-ˌsloppism, = sense 2; ˈslip-ˌsloppy a., wet, sloppy.
1797Coleridge Lett. (1895) 223 ‘Engages the eye,’ applied to a gibbet, strikes me as slipsloppish. 1803Lett. Miss Riversdale III. 228 Slip-sopism [sic] is not confined to females, now-a-days, I perceive. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 135 A body of excavators (navigators our villagers by an ingenious slip-slopism were pleased to call them). a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Blasphemer's Warning, There was no taking refuge too then,..On a slip-sloppy day, in a cab or a 'bus. 1848Illustr. Lond. News 12 Feb. 88/3 The general slip-sloppery of its warehouses.
▪ II. ˈslip-slop, a.
[See prec.]
†1. Characterized by, given to, blundering in the use or forms of words. Obs.
1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) III. 105 Memorandums..become, as Captain H― expressed it once, by a lucky slip-slop Phrase, Remorandums. 1776G. Colman Posth. Lett. (1820) 335 Her dialect is particularly vulgar,..not by murdering words in the slip-slop way, but by a mean twang in the pronunciation. 1809Sporting Mag. XXXIII. 252 A slip-slop Colonel having sent for an architect to construct a mausoleum. 1824L. M. Hawkins Mem. I. 140 note, Is the reply of Quin to a slip-slop milliner at Bath very trite?
2. Having no substance or solidity; sloppy, feeble, trifling.
1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 84 We may again expect in the slip-slop prints the usual selection of important incidents. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. II. 2, I..have abandoned her to the slip-slop attentions of the shame-faced George. 1879Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Sept. 561 A system of swindling..arising out of the loose slip-slop legal procedure.
b. Of discourse, writings, style, etc.
1827A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under 7 Administr. (1837) I. 27 Like the slip-slop, wishy-washy..speeches of Lords in the Upper House. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 635 The abstruse sciences are reduced to slip-slop literature for the young. 1874S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) II. 238 A loose slip-slop style of English composition.
▪ III. ˈslip-slop, v.
[Cf. slip-slop n.]
1. intr. (See quots. and cf. slip-slop n. 2.)
a1791Grose Olio 93 There is a grosser misapplication of words, which, from a character..delineated by Fielding,..has been called slip-slopping. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3), Slipslopping, misnaming and misapplying any hard word.
2. To drink a sloppy beverage.
1834Beckford Italy I. 297 The Capitol..was quite deserted, the world, thank Heaven, being all slip-slopping in coffee houses.
3. To slip or move about in a sloppy manner or with a flapping sound. Also used adverbially.
1870Farjeon Grif I. viii. 167 The dirty broken bluchers in which Grif's feet slip-slopped constantly. 1887Jefferies Amaryllis vi, So they paddled along to the fair, slip-slop, in the dust. 1891Hardy Tess (1900) 47/1 At the farther end the great churn could be seen revolving, and its slip-slopping heard. |