slip-shoen.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
A light or loose shoe; a slipper.
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sockc725
pinson1388
slipper?1478
pantan1489
pump1555
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pump shoe1689
baff1914
baffie1917
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 250 They vse a maner of slippe shooes, that may lightly be putte of and on.
1592 Arden of Feversham v. i For in his slipshoe did I find some rushes.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey (1637) 63 The rest..going in yellow or red slip-shooes, picked at the toe.
a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 122 He went not out of the College gates,..but was in slip-shoes.
1719 S. Sewall Diary 15 Sept. (1973) II. 929 Going out to call the Fisherman in Slip-shoes, I fell flat upon the pavement.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xix. 80 The open shoe. The close shoe. The slip shoe.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 416 A loose shoe or slipper is called a slip-shoe in Norfolk [England].
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Slip-shoes,..an old loose pair of shoes worn at night after taking off the half bats.
Derivatives
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > wearing slippers or loose shoes
slipshod1580
slippereda1616
slip-shoed1702
slipper-slopper1825
1702 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 385 A Gentleman..having strain'd his Ankle..went lame and slip-shoo'd for at least a Year and a half.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 30 I..was Slip-shoe'd, and without Stockings, being just as I turn'd out of my Cabin.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 257 They were all slip-shoed.
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