slip-slopn.
/ˈslɪpslɒp/ 1. A sloppy compound used as a food, beverage, or medicine.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > sloppy food
pap1286
messa1500
pults?1550
slop1658
slip-slop1675
soss1691
slop-dash1817
slosh1819
sozzle1823
slush1898
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > sloppy medicine > [noun]
slip-slop1675
sozzle1823
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 49 No, thou shalt feed, instead of these, Or your slip-slap of Curds and Whey, On Nectar and Ambrosia.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 241 Such Cordials, and other compounded Slip-slops as the Sick are forced continually to swallow down.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 151 To run to Apothecaries Shops for this or that whimsical Slip-slop, which may be told him as a Nostrum.
1754 Connoisseur No. 19 When the jellies and slip-slops were coming in, the beef was carried off.
1796 M. Robinson Angelina I. 148 I hate slip-slops, I never taste tea.
1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxiv. 20 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature > instance of
slip-slop1788
slip-sloppism1803
malaprop1814
malapropism1830
malapropoism1834
Dundrearyism1862
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature
slip-sloppism1803
malapropism1830
slip-slop1837
malapropoism1893
1788 F. Burney Diary 8 Jan. (1842) IV. 14 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.
1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 220 One of the party (amongst other slipslops) saying instead of Pasticcios, he liked Pistachios.
1837 J. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature > user of
slip-slopa1791
a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) xxii. 93 These slip-slops are frequently of the rank he has drawn his lady.
1857 Lady Canning in A. J. C. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1811 J. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) I. vii. 149 No one observation the Regent has made yet out of the commonest slip-slop.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 170 Some man..cleaned up the slovenly sentences, and gave the lax maudlin slipslop a sort of consistency.
1886 Athenæum 30 Oct. 559/3 In..his history this style is wanting, and is replaced by modern slipslop.
b. A tag or phrase.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun]
locution?a1475
phrase1530
saying1530
comma1592
speecha1599
standa1626
gramm1647
dictiona1660
roada1690
slip-slop1823
construct1871
group word1888
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xlvii. 78 ‘Cosi Viaggino i Ricchi!’ (Excuse a foreign slipslop now and then).
4.
a. U.S. (See quot. 1859.)
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 416 Slip-slops, old shoes turned down at the heel.
b. A kind of beach sandal; = flip-flop n. 5. Chiefly South African.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of
alpargata1613
opanka1778
pampootie1846
kaparrang1867
huarache1887
chappal1893
bakya1916
platform sandal1940
jandal1950
flip-flop1958
thonged sandal1958
thong sandal1965
toe-thong sandal1966
thong1967
slip-slop1971
1971 Stud. in Eng. (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.
1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle ii. 31 Knotted blouse, blue jeans and slip-slop sandals.
Derivatives
ˈslip-ˌsloppery n. slipslop condition or methods.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun]
undaftiness1555
slutterya1586
messiness1836
unneatness1836
untidiness1845
slip-sloppery1848
unkemptness1856
mussiness1869
untrimmedness1883
streelishness1936
1848 Illustr. London News 12 Feb. 88/3 The general slip-sloppery of its warehouses.
ˈslip-ˌsloppish adj. of the nature of slip-slop.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]
tooma1250
beggarly1526
trumpery1576
balductum1577
skimble-skamble1598
nonsense1621
warbling1621
flim-flam1631
nonsensical1645
unsensical1692
fiddlecome1697
waffling1698
mataeological1716
flummery1749
water-gruelish1788
slip-sloppish1797
twaddling1804
twaddle1830
twaddly1841
fee-faw-fumish1846
poppycock1852
boshy1860
twaddlesome1865
moonshiny1880
cockalorum1881
tommyrotic1894
crappy1928
ballsy1942
farkakte1960
1797 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 223 ‘Engages the eye,’ applied to a gibbet, strikes me as slipsloppish.
ˈslip-ˌsloppism n. = sense 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature
slip-sloppism1803
malapropism1830
slip-slop1837
malapropoism1893
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature > instance of
slip-slop1788
slip-sloppism1803
malaprop1814
malapropism1830
malapropoism1834
Dundrearyism1862
1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale III. 228 Slip-sopism [sic] is not confined to females, now-a-days, I perceive.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 4 A body of excavators (navigators our villagers by an ingenious slip-slopism were pleased to call them).
ˈslip-ˌsloppy adj. wet, sloppy.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time)
wetc893
moista1398
waterya1398
moistya1500
waterish1545
washy1566
rotten1567
slabby1653
weety1658
late1673
fresh1790
slottery1790
soft1812
givey1829
juicy1837
sploshy1838
sposhy1842
slip-sloppya1845
splishy-splashyc1850
shabby1853
soppy1872
sappy1885
a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 233 There was no taking refuge too then,..On a slip-sloppy day, in a cab or a 'bus.
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slip-slopadj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in application of words > with ludicrous effect
slip-slop1766
malaprop1815
malapropian1860
malapropistic1978
1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 105 Memorandums..become, as Captain H—— expressed it once, by a lucky slip-slop Phrase, Remorandums.
a1776 G. Colman Posthumous. Lett. (1820) Add. 335 Her dialect is particularly vulgar..not by murdering words in the slip-slop way, but by a mean twang in the pronunciation.
1809 Sporting Mag. 33 252 A slip-slop Colonel having sent for an architect to construct a mausoleum.
1824 L.-M. Hawkins Mem. I. 140 (note) Is the reply of Quin to a slip-slop milliner at Bath very trite?
2.
a. Having no substance or solidity; sloppy, feeble, trifling.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective]
feeblec1400
colourlessc1425
flagging1540
pithless1555
blanched1570
toothless1592
unpointed1604
unsinewed1604
jejune1615
low-pitched1622
unsinewy?1623
macilent1624
flaccid1647
insinewy1653
unsubstanceda1658
incogent1667
pointless1673
languida1677
enervatea1704
unaccentuated1716
unnervate1725
lank1729
unforcible1754
nerveless1763
weak1771
flabby1793
slip-slop1814
tinkling1822
exsanguinea1834
twittery1840
slipshod1842
under-coloured1870
shaftless1881
thin1890
unaccented1893
wimpish1925
wimp1979
1814 Sporting Mag. 44 84 We may again expect in the slip-slop prints the usual selection of important incidents.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 2 I..have abandoned her to the slip-slop attentions of the shame-faced George.
1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Sept. 561 A system of swindling..arising out of the loose slip-slop legal procedure.
b. Of discourse, writings, style, etc.
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1827 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 27 May 321/1 Like the slip-slop, wishy-washy..speeches of Lords in the Upper House.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 635 The abstruse sciences are reduced to slip-slop literature for the young.
a1873 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) II. 238 A loose slip-slop style of English composition.
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slip-slopv.
1. intransitive. (See quots. and cf. slip-slop n. 2.)
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > err linguistically [verb (intransitive)] > in use of words
slip-slopa1791
malaprop1959
a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) 93 There is a grosser misapplication of words, which, from a character..delineated by Fielding,..has been called slip-slopping.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Slipslopping, misnaming and misapplying any hard word.
2. To drink a sloppy beverage.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink sloppy or weak drink
slop1742
slip-slop1834
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal 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.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with flapping noise
slip-slop1870
slip-slap1926
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > shuffle or drag the feet
shuffle1576
shauchle1721
slare1726
shaffle1781
scuffle1825
slodge1829
scuff1847
slip-slop1870
slur1889
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > make flapping sound
slip-slop1870
whicker1926
1870 B. L. Farjeon Grif I. viii. 167 The dirty broken bluchers in which Grif's feet slip-slopped constantly.
1887 R. Jefferies Amaryllis at Fair vi So they paddled along to the fair, slip-slop, in the dust.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xviii. 238 At the farther end the great churn could be seen revolving, and its slip-slopping heard.
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