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slopy, a. and n.|ˈsləʊpɪ|
Also slopey.
[f. slope n.1 or v.1 + -y1.]
A. adj. Sloping.
1740Richardson Pamela I. 229 When they see the dead Corpse of the unhappy Pamela dragg'd out to these slopy Banks. 1793G. White Selborne, Invitation to S., Here Nature hangs her slopy woods to sight. 1860Trollope Framley P. xxxvi, A green slopy bank of land. 1866Amer. Newsp. in Sat. Rev. 14 July 40/1 The tender meetings on the slopy swards of the park.
B. n. U.S. slang. An oriental, a Chinese. (Abusive.) Cf. slope n.1 6, slopehead s.v. slope- a.
1948G. H. Johnston Death takes small Bites v. 107 ‘And you'll find it mighty hard, son, to convince Petroleum Developments that the fields aren't as important as a bunch of flea-bitten slopeys!’ ‘Well, go on.’ ‘Okay—as long as you understand that oil's a pretty important commodity—and Chinese ain't.’ 1962E. Snow Red China Today (1963) xii. 85 One might assume that contempt for American imperialism would by now have produced Chinese equivalents of insulting American epithets such as slopeys, slant-eyes and chinks. |