slopn.1
/slɒp/, U.S. /slɑp/ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > other types of
slop1303
wonder-horn1864
pixie dust1951
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 522 Þere was a wycche, and made a bagge... Þys wycche here charme began to sey, Þe slop ros up, and ȝede þe weye.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 537 Þe sloppe lay stylle, as hyt ded wore.
2. † b. spec. (See quot. 1570) Obsolete. rare.† c. (See quot. 1688) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
a. An outer garment, as a loose jacket, tunic, cassock, mantle, gown, or smock-frock.For modern examples cf. the Eng. Dial. Dict. at Slop n.2 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > other
overslopOE
golionc1290
jupec1290
herigaut1297
rocketc1300
tabardc1300
rocheta1325
suckeny?a1366
hanselinc1386
slopc1386
stolea1387
houpland1392
frockc1400
gipec1400
under-frock1547
vochette1548
shirt1553
rubashka1587
camis1590
gorbelly1598
kebaya1598
tunic1609
sotana1622
supertunic1626
simar1636
manteau1638
peplum1656
peple1658
semar1673
mantua1678
manty1678
mant1694
vest1700
banian1725
galabiya1725
peplos1738
paletota1796
pellard1799
blouse1828
chiton1850
diploidion1850
shirtwaist1859
camorra1869
diplois1887
smock1907
kurta1913
Punjabi1937
kameez1955
kente cloth1957
camouflage smock1964
kanzu1969
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening or break in continuity > in a wall, hedge, fence, dike, etc.
sharda1000
gapc1380
slopc1386
slapc1425
intermission1624
gap-stead1644
gool1664
gateway1707
break1725
smeuse1819
rent1879
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋422 The..scantnesse of clothyng as been thise kutted sloppes or haynselyns.
c1440 York Myst. xxxi. 77 Se þat my sloppe be wele sittande.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 460/1 Sloppe, garment, mutatorium.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 466 Gyve me a newe sloppe and a large hode.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxvi. 213 He armed hymselfe with secrete armour, and dyd on a sloppe aboue, and a cloke aboue that.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lvv The mantels had great capes like to the Portingal slopys.
a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 195 in Wks. (1880) II. 210 To see some painted face, Or Fire~new Fashion in a Sleeve or slop.
a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth iv, in Wks. (1673) 22/1 I will embrace thy long loose slopp, and kiss Thy drivell'd Beard.
1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. III. 448/2 A slop or shirt over it.
1841 G. Borrow Zincali i. i He was dressed in a coarse waggoner's slop.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic 12 The clothes of the amateur..should be protected at least by a loose ‘slop’ or jacket of canvas.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > other
stolec950
paramentc1385
stolea1387
vestmentc1386
chimer1487
shemewe1517
parliament1537
Turkey gown1558
slop1570
blue gown1578
dolman1585
palliament1593
synthesis1606
vest1613
paramentoa1640
brandenburgh1676
khilat1684
spagnoleta1685
sultanea1685
sultana1693
garter-robes1702
under-robe1725
wrapper1725
stola1728
talar1738
negligée1755
jama1776
dust-gown1802
yukata1822
manga1824
gandoura1851
pheran1851
riga1851
shamma1862
choga1869
kanzu1870
kimono1886
holoku1893
mammy-cloth1952
1570 Bk. Precedence (Harl. 1440) in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) 28 A slope is a morning Cassock for Ladyes and gentile wemen, not open before.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other
dorlot1340
horn1340
vitremytec1386
templesc1430
bycocket1464
burlet1490
knapscall1498
shapion1504
shaffron1511
paste1527
attire1530
faille1530
muzzle1542
corneta1547
abacot1548
wase1548
wrapper1548
tiring1552
basket1555
bilimenta1556
Paris head1561
shadow1578
head-roll1583
mitre1585
whitehead1588
crispa1592
ship-tire1602
oreillet1603
scoffion1604
coif1617
aigrette1631
egreta1645
drail1647
topknotc1686
slop1688
Burgundy1701
bandore1708
fly-cap1753
capriole1756
lappet-head1761
fly1773
turban1776
pouf1788
knapscapa1802
chip1804
toque1817
bonnet1837
casquette1840
war bonnet1845
taj1851
pugree1859
kennel1896
roach1910
Deely bobber1982
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 395/2 A Womans face proper, with a Slop on her head..; the attire..makes me judge it to be rather some kind of Slop or Maunch for the head... Some term this a French Hood pendant.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > other > shoes
slops1480
shoe-maker's stocks1699
liripipe1706
shoes of swiftness1787
1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 118 A paire of sloppes of blac leder, v d.
1483 in Antiq. Rep. (1807) I. 42 ij pair of shoon, ij pair of slops, and viij paire of botews of Spaynysh leder.
4. in extended use.1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iv. sig. H2 Sirha, you Ballad singer, and Slops your fellow there, get you out. View more context for this quotation† b. singular in the same sense, or denoting only one leg of the garment. Obsolete.† c. The loose or wide part of a pair of breeches of this kind. Obsolete. rare.
a. plural. Wide baggy breeches or hose, of the kind commonly worn in the 16th and early 17th cent.; loose trousers, esp. those worn by sailors. Now chiefly dialect.In the Geneva, Bishops', and Douay Bibles sloppes is employed in rendering Isaiah iii. 20, where the King James Bible has ‘the ornaments of the legges’ and the Revised Version ‘the ankle chains’. For some particulars relating to the history of the garment, see Fairholt Costume I. 237, 263, etc., and cf. the Eng. Dial. Dict. at Slop n.2 3.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose
slops1481
shipman's hose1540
slop1560
shipman's breek1563
drawers1567
kelsouns1568
scaling1577
scavilones1577
scabilonian1600
calzoons1615
linings1631
swabber-slopsa1658
pantaloon1686
underslops1737
trousers1773
pyjamas1801
Cossacks1820
Turkish trousers1821
hakama1822
salwar1824
slacks1824
sherwal1844
overall1845
bag1853
sack-pants1856
bloomer1862
trouser skirt1883
petticoat trousers1885
mompe1908
step-in1922
bombachas1936
baggies1962
jams1966
palazzo1970
hose-
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > wide or loose
slops1481
slopper1549
gally breeches1567
gally hose1567
gaskin breeches1573
gaskins1573
galligaskin1577
galligaskin breeches1577
galligaskin1592
slivings1601
gregs1611
petticoat breeches1658
Rhinegrave1667
bushel-breeches1834
romper1922
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 518 For the same Magnus a whyt cote, a payre sloppes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 271/2 Sloppes, hosyn, brayes a marinier.
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 19 viii paire of Sloppes parted, the one legge of the said blewe clothe of golde and the other of greene clothe of Silver.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. sig. K8v He had nothing vpon him but a paire of sloppes, and vpon his bodie a Gote-skinne.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 656 The two sloppes or breeches were tied and knit together about the middle.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxviii. §382 Below the girdle are the breeches, that is, either slops,..or trusses somwhat strait.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Slops, a wide sort of Breeches worn by Seamen.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii. 112 Two pair black silk slops, with hanging garters of carnation silk.
1842 R. H. Barham Dead Drummer in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 197 He would give an occasional hitch, Sailor-like to his ‘slops’.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose
slops1481
shipman's hose1540
slop1560
shipman's breek1563
drawers1567
kelsouns1568
scaling1577
scavilones1577
scabilonian1600
calzoons1615
linings1631
swabber-slopsa1658
pantaloon1686
underslops1737
trousers1773
pyjamas1801
Cossacks1820
Turkish trousers1821
hakama1822
salwar1824
slacks1824
sherwal1844
overall1845
bag1853
sack-pants1856
bloomer1862
trouser skirt1883
petticoat trousers1885
mompe1908
step-in1922
bombachas1936
baggies1962
jams1966
palazzo1970
hose-
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > leg of
slop1560
1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams lxxxiii. sig. Bviiv The man..Werth on eche legge, one male, for his sloppes are: Eche one sloppe one male.
1565 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 306 A lyning of Cotton stytched to the Sloppe over & besydes the lynnen lynyng straytt to the legg.
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 2v Their narrow shoulders must haue a quilted Dublet of a large sise:..their crooked legges, a side sloppe.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I When I see..another wallowe in a greate sloppe, I mistrust the proportion of his thigh.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 175/1 His gay slop hath no sooner kist the Cushions, but..he hath neuer left Roaring, row, row, row.
1652 News from Lowe Countreys 2 The French Trunck sometimes doth him house, The Dutch Slopp, and the Irish Trouse.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > parts of
paunce cloth1552
canions1569
slop1591
port-cannon1663
knee-fringe1684
knee-strings1712
knee-ties1825
fall-front1860
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A2 So quaintly and artificially made that it may bee put in the slop of a mans hose.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B4 A plaine payre of Cloth breeches.., straight to the thigh,..without a sloppe.
5. figurative.1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings Proemium That a Monarch's wife yclept a Queen May not..be a downright Slop, Form'd of the coarsest rags of Nature's shop?1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xix. 348 In the Roman law, the clergy had been used to see a sort of warehouse, in which slops of all sorts were to be had ready-made.
a. plural. Ready-made clothing and other furnishings supplied to seamen from the ship's stores; hence, ready-made, cheap, or inferior garments generally.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > cheap or inferior
slops1663
slop?1798
slop-work1849
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > supplies provisions > clothing, etc., supplied to seamen
slops1663
go-ashores1867
1663 S. Pepys Diary 16 Mar. (1971) IV. 74 Advising upon the business of Slopps, wherein the seaman is so much abused by the pursers.
1764 J. Byron Voy. in Hawkesworth I. 9 The men..who had contrived to sell not only all their warm clothes, but their bedding,..now applied in great distress for slops.
1799 Ld. Nelson 16 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 267 Slops are not to be purchased here but at an enormous price.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. ii. 22 A young sailor, with a face innocent of everything but a pride in his slops.
1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour II. xi. 186 He used to sell his slops for brandy, and cobble his old garments with the brown canvas of the sandbags.
b. singular in collective use, or denoting a single garment of this kind.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > cheap or inferior
slops1663
slop?1798
slop-work1849
?1798 ‘P. Pindar’ Tales of Hoy 2 When the Men of slop, The Jew and Gentile turn towards their shop, In alleys dark.
1887 W. Besant World Went x. 84 He wore a common sailor's petticoat or slop.
6. Used as a term of contempt. rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt
thingOE
cat?c1225
geggea1300
fox-whelpc1320
creaturea1325
whelp1338
scoutc1380
turnbroach14..
foumart1508
shit1508
get?a1513
strummel?a1513
scofting?1518
pismirea1535
clinchpoop1555
rag1566
huddle and twang1578
whipster1590
slop1599
shullocka1603
tailor1607
turnspit1607
fitchewa1616
bulchin1617
trundle-taila1626
tick1631
louse1633
fart1669
insect1684
mully-grub-gurgeon1746
grub-worm1752
rass1790
foutre1794
blister1806
snot1809
skin1825
scurf1851
scut1873
Siwash1882
stiff1882
bleeder1887
blighter1896
sugar1916
vuilgoed1924
klunk1942
fart sack1943
fart-arse1946
jerkwad1980
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 27 Not a slop of a ropehaler they send forth to the Queenes ships, but hee is first broken to the Sea in the Herring mans Skiffe or Cock-boate.
Compounds
C1. In senses 2, 4, as slop-frock, †slop-hose [compare Middle Dutch slophose] , slop-pouch.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 251 Payre of sloppe hoses.
1565 R. Onslow in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 306 A sloppe-hose not cutte in panes.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iv. 73 This purse has all that is left of as round a sum as a man would wish to carry in his slop-pouch.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 68 With slop~frock suiting to the ploughman's taste.
1837 Lincoln Herald 17 Jan. 2/2 John Cowley, indicted for stealing at Binbrook, one slop frock and one hat.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. Slop frock, a smock-frock.
C2. In combinations relating to seamen's slops, or to cheap ready-made garments.
slop-boat n.
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1823 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 21/2 A large stock of rum was immediately laid in from the circumambient slop~boats.
slop-book n.
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1755 Abstr. Act in M.P.'s Let. on R.N. 14 Five..Pay-books shall be..made out.., and a Slop-book.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 633 Slop-Book, a register of the slop clothing, soap, and tobacco, issued to the men; also of the religious books supplied.
slop-chest n.
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1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 102 Having begun the voyage with very few clothes, he had taken up the greater part of his wages in the slop-chest.
1874 Law Times Rep. 31 20/2 They had each received..6 dollars from the slop chest on the voyage.
slop-clothes n.
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1699 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 493 The deduction of 12d. in the pound by the paymaster for slop cloaths..is without warrant.
1745 Infallible Project Manning Navy 11 Sea-mens Wages are not Half consum'd in..Slop-Cloths.
slop-clothing n.
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1802 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales II. xiii. 131 For want of slop clothing and bedding, indeed, they were much distressed.
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs II. 109 After putting on each a suit of coarse slop-clothing, we were ironed and sent below.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 416/1 One pound sterling is paid..as the price of his bedding and slop-clothing.
slop goods n.
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1884 Spectator 737/2 Their cheapness is due to the fact that they are really ‘slop goods’—goods, that is, produced at a price which cannot give the worker a decent maintenance.
slop-maker n.
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1643 in Archaeologia (1890) 52 134 A slopmaker for Seamen neare Billingsgate.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl xvi. 170 I told him of my work among the East-End slop-makers!
slop man n.
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1799 Hull Advertiser 12 Oct. 2/4 I, John Brown, of Kingston-upon-Hull, Slopman.
1812 Examiner 4 May 280/2 F. Richmond,..taylor and slopman.
slop merchant n.
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a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III ii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 239/1 He did appear Like a slop-merchant from Wapping.
slop needle n.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 231/1 I could not meet with one woman ‘working a slop-needle’.
slop room n.
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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 149 Slop-room, the place appointed for the purser to keep the ship's slops in.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 62 Slops and marine necessaries in the slop-room.
slop ship n.
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1802 Naval Chron. 7 447 The Resolve slop ship was laid up in ordinary.
1813 R. Southey Life Nelson I. 74 His vessel was kept at the Nore.., serving as a slop and receiving ship.
slop shirt n.
ΚΠ
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 231/1 Working for slop shirt-makers, &c., upon the coarser sorts of work.
slop snobbing n.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 23/1 The garret-master buys lasts to do the slop-snobbing cheap.
slop suit n.
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1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xl, in All Year Round 18 May 172/1 He was at present dressed in a seafaring slop suit.
slop waistcoat n.
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1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 132 His mother had had no slop-waistcoat finishing to do for three or four days.
slop woman n.
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1714 London Gaz. No. 5272/9 Anne Lee, of Gosport.., Slop~woman.
slop wrapper n.
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 633 A short slop wrapper, formerly called a sliving.
C3.
slop-builder n. a jerry-builder.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or unskilled building or construction > one who
slop-builder1869
jerry-builder1881
1869 Latest News 5 Sept. 7 They were only contract built edifices by ‘slop builders’.
slop-built n. jerry-built; loosely-made.
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1835 Edinb. Rev. 60 343 The temptation to construct what are called slop-built ships..is therefore quite irresistible.
1903 W. Craig Adv. Austral. Goldfields 39 He was slop-built.
slop-chit n. Nautical a note offered at a ship's stores in exchange for clothing; also transferred, an expense sheet.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > note exchanged for clothing
slop-chit1946
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > voucher > specific kind of
scrip1818
box top1820
labour note1831
punch-out1899
book token1932
record token1939
slop-chit1946
luncheon voucher1955
dinner card1963
1946 ‘Tackline’ You met such Nice Girls i. 11 Sailors come in at different times with what we call Slop-Chits, but which are really nothing but shopping lists. So the slop-chits are the things they want, such as shoes and socks and caps and things.
1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 123 Superb autobahn all the way, and a reasonably fast car on his slopchit, made Karlsruhe almost one of the nearer suburbs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopn.2
/slɒp/, U.S. /slɑp/ 1. † a. A muddy place; a mud-hole. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > wet place, mire, or slough
sloughc900
mooreOE
letch1138
mire1219
sougha1300
dew1377
slop?a1400
flashc1440
slothc1440
slonk1488
slot?a1500
rilling1610
slab1610
water-gall1657
slunkc1700
slack1719
mudhole1721
bog-hole1788
spew1794
wetness1805
stabble1821
slob1836
sludge1839
soak1839
mudbath1856
squire-trap1859
loblolly1865
glue-pot1892
swelter1894
poaching1920
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3923 He..Slippes in in the sloppes o-slante to the girdylle.
b. ? A splash of mud or slush.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > an instance or the result of > of mud or slush
jaup1513
slop1731
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > splashing or spattering with wet substance > splash or spatter of wet substance
daggle1591
dashing1591
splatch1665
slop1731
sprent1828
1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 332 To walk through Rag Fair in dirty weather,..a jostle in one place, a slip in another, a slop in a third.
c. Liquid mud; slush.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thin or soft
addleOE
slougha1225
mirec1390
slurc1440
slurryc1440
sludge1702
slush1772
slop1796
slosh1808
stabble1821
sposh1836
sleck1840
flop1844
squad1847
slather1876
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 605 The inhabitants have to walk in almost perpetual slop.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 207/1 In wet weather the dirt swept or scraped to one side is so liquified that it is known as ‘slop’.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Jan. 1/2 Every one..viewed the accumulating slop..with a pious faith in its restoration in a few days.
2.
a. An act of spilling or splashing; a quantity of liquid spilled or splashed.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > [noun] > slopping
slop1699
slopping1881
slop-over1908
sloppage1962
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Gâchis To make a slap, to wet a Room.
1782 F. Burney Let. 28 Dec. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 235 When she came, there happened to be a great slop on the Table.
1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 116 Don't mind it, I beg,..a little slop's soon wiped up.
1836 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 15 On the other side of it there was an immense slop oozing out from something.
1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls vi. 96 There never was a slop on the stove, or a teaspoonful of anything spilled.
b. Nautical. A choppy sea, chop.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > choppy sea
slop1956
1956 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Nov. 23/6 Mostly southerlies, they pick up to twenty knots and kick up a good slop.
1974 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float xi. 120 A slop was banging against her bows, giving her life and motion.
1977 Austral. Sailing Jan. 65/1 The Tornados and Hobie 16s revelled in the slop.
3.
a. Liquid or semi-liquid food of a weak, unappetizing kind; applied contemptuously to invalids' spoon-food, tea, etc. Now usually plural.
ΘΚΠ
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
singular.
plural.c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 177 Much physick and slops being taken in the winter following.1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 334 He physicked himself out of his Life.—He would be always taking Slops.1798 Monthly Mag. Mar. 183 Tea, and thin chocolate, and such like enervating slops.1829 W. Cobbett Advice to Young Men i. §31 Experience has taught me, that those slops [sc. tea, coffee, etc.] are injurious to health.1863 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 158 The cold first came into my tongue, swelling it... I had to live on slops.1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 174 It is not every ridiculous slop that is a Medicine.
1786 F. Burney Diary 14 Aug. (1842) III. 110 [She] exclaimed ‘O dear, you've got no tea!’ Then pouring out a dish of slop, added [etc.].
1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 59 The old woman..went down to prepare the slop.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 498 Full of slop as he is, the patient burns with thirst.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). Sentimentality, affected sensibility.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun]
sentiment1747
sentimentality1770
mawkishness1796
sensiblerie1815
sentimentalism1818
sloppiness1828
morbidezza1833
milk-and-wateriness1834
maudlin1838
soothing syrup1839
emotionalism1846
stickiness1864
slop1866
mushiness1868
saccharinity1868
sympatheticism1884
hearts and flowers1911
lovey-doveyness1923
schmaltz1934
goop1950
goo1951
schmaltziness1953
gloop1957
cheesiness1963
soupiness1963
soft-centredness1967
soppiness1974
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 33 You can go on writing that slop about balmy breezes and fragrant flowers, and all that sort of truck.
1917 E. Pound Let. Mar. (1971) 108 I would suggest that a series of this sort [sc. essays on French poets] by me, Eliot, and De Bosschère would at least keep out a certain amount of slop from the prose section.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey i. xiii. 106 Sentiment being ‘slop’, and championship mere condescension.
1927 Sunday Express 24 July 4 ‘Seventh Heaven’, the swamp of sentiment into which the critics were invited to plunge a few days ago. Personally I should describe it as the sublimity of slop.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §265/1 Sentimentality,..slop.
c. U.S. and Australian slang. Beer. Usually plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun]
beerc1000
jug1715
swipes1796
gatter1818
pongelo1859
neck oil1860
pig's ear1880
slop1904
suds1904
hop1929
wallop1933
keg1945
turps1945
brewski1977
1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 252/2 Slop, beer.
1919 Dial. Notes 5 42 Slops, beer.
1949 L. Glassop Lucky Palmer i. 5 Keep your shirt on. There's no harm in having a jug of slops, now is there?
1953 T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake x. 197 His wife and both of his kids got burned to death when his house went up... They reckon that's what sent him onto the slops in the first place.
1963 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 14 Mar. 51/2 Bung me and me mate over a droppa slops, will yer love?
4.
a. Refuse liquid of any kind; rinsings of tea, coffee, or other beverages; the dirty water, etc., of a household. Usually plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > waste water
kitchen-lee1638
slop1815
waste water1839
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xiii. 247 He..threw the slops..into the sugar-dish instead of the slop-bason.
1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich ii. 157 The removal of slops to be ornamentally treated.
1882 G. Bloomfield Reminisc. (1883) I. xi. 336 The slops had never been emptied, so the rooms were anything but odoriferous.
b. U.S. dialect and colloquial. Kitchen refuse or swill fed to cattle or pigs. Usually plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for cows or oxen
pomple1347
cow-meat1580
slop1805
the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > wash
swine meat1434
hogwashc1450
swash1528
swillinga1529
swilla1570
wash1585
washmeat1688
slop1805
pigswill1862
1805 R. Parkinson Tour Amer. i. 39 It was natural for me to inquire, what they kept their cows and horses on during the winter. They told me—their horses on blades, and their cows on slops.
1912 T. Dreiser Financier xii. 127 A slop-man,..who could come with a great wagon filled with barrels and haul away the slops from your back door, was absolutely essential.
1961 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxxvi. 7 Slop, food for pigs.
c. figurative. Nonsense, rubbish; insolence.
ΘΚΠ
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
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech
sauce malapert1529
petulancea1652
jaw1748
snash1786
slack-jaw1797
slang1805
gob1807
lip1821
cheek1825
slack1825
sass1841
back-talk1858
back sass1883
mouth1891
slack lip1899
back-chat1901
chin1902
slop1952
1952 B. Malamud Natural 214 Roy tore it up and told the usher to take no more slop from him.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp vi. 120 ‘Sometimes I feel it is my responsibility to say no,’ the editor was quoted as saying, ‘even if I know people do want to read this slop.’
5. Pottery. = slip n.1 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [noun] > with water
loam1480
clama1555
slip1640
puddle1791
puddling1826
slop1844
pug1853
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > materials
slip1640
slop1844
stencil1853
monochrome1858
barbotine1865
trailed slip1957
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 154/1 The halves of the mould are then put together, and the slop intended for the ground poured in.
6. A dance (see quot. 1962).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others
quickstep1793
turkey-trot1839
racket1880
Military Schottische1882
veleta1900
military two-step1911
one-step1911
spot dance1911
Paul Jones1914
foxtrot1915
foxtrotting1916
Maxina1917
Boston two-step1918
slow foxtrot1918
twinkle1920
camel-walk1921
Charleston1923
slop1962
1962 Punch 16 May 761/1 In the Slop the partners face each other and perform rhythmic movements with feet stationary, the arms swinging pendulum-like in front of the body.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 131 Each couple on the floor danced whatever was in the fellow's head: tango, two-step, bossa nova, slop.
1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 84 There was the Hully Gully,..the Slop and..the Frug.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In senses 1c, 4.)
slop-barrel n.
ΚΠ
1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants 172 With..a dairy and slop barrel..pork may be raised from the sow.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 84 Emptying..some twelve to fifteen bucketfuls from the slop-barrel.
slop-bowl n.
ΚΠ
1810 Columbian Centinel 25 Aug. 4/2 For sale at Davis & Brown's Silver Ware and Jewellry Store..Sugar Basons,..Slop-Bowls.
1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xi. 85 A small pile of buttered toast on the slop-bowl, kept warm by hot water below.
1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 233/2 Sugar-bowl,..and slop-bowl.
slop-bucket n.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 83 I am thankful that I am here, able to empty a slop-bucket.
slop-can n.
ΚΠ
1926 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 204/1 A strange black dog..supporting himself by raiding the slop-cans of Nigger Town.
slop cartage n.
ΚΠ
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 268/2 The expense of slop-cartage.
slop-dirt n.
ΚΠ
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 188/1 When in combination with a greater quantity of water, so that it is rendered almost liquid, it is known as ‘slop-dirt’.
slop-hopper n.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Slop~hopper, the basin of a water-closet or sink.
1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 261/2 The slop-hopper is generally a receptacle for rags and rubbish.
slop-jar n.
ΚΠ
1855 J. L. Motley Let. 18 Oct. in Corr. (1889) I. vi. 178 Celestial slop jars, heaps of clean towels, etc.
slop-pail n.
ΚΠ
1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 212 My boy knows very well how to manage it when the slop-pail is within reach.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing i. 14 A slop-pail should never be brought into a sick room.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. v. 297 Of Hanbury's News-Letters from Foreign Courts, four or five..are like the contents of a slop-pail.
slop-sink n.
ΚΠ
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 60/2 Tip-up Lavatory, Urinal, or Slop-sink combined.
slop-tank n.
ΚΠ
1968 New Scientist 25 Jan. 196/2 One of the ship's tanks is selected to serve as a slop tank... The tanks to be cleaned are washed in turn and washings are pumped continuously into the top of the slop tank.
1979 F. Forsyth Devil's Alternative ix. 223 She had sixty giant tanks, or holds... One of these was the slop tank, to be used for..gathering the slops from her fifty crude-carrying cargo tanks.
slop-tub n.
ΚΠ
1867 ‘M. Twain’ Celebrated Jumping Frog 169 You will proceed toward the window and sit down in that slop-tub.
b. (In sense 3.)
slop-diet n.
ΚΠ
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 58 Pale thin men, relaxed by sedentary habits and a spare slop diet.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 399 In severer febrile attacks a slop-diet is advisable.
slop-fed adj.
ΚΠ
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. ii. 56 Slop-fed unhealthy cows.
c. (In sense 5.)
slop-clay n.
ΚΠ
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 459 When the proper proportions of slop clay and flint have been well blunged together, the liquid is pumped out of the reservoir on the top of the slip-kiln.
C2.
slop-moulding n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 348/1 ‘Slop-moulding,’ in which process the mould is dipped into water previous to its receiving the clay.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2215/1 Slop-molding..requires several molds; pallet-molding only one.
slop-stone n. dialect a stone slab used as a surface for washing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > surface on which washing is done or beaten
washing-stock1417
washing-block1590
washing-board1810
washing-stone1813
wash-bench1843
slop-stone1882
1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II 245 Slopstone, a place for washing.
1911 A. Bennett Card viii. 197 A gas range and a marble slopstone with two taps.
1978 Lancashire Life Oct. 83/2 Ah want thad slop-stooan scrubbin'.
slop-wash n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Slop-wash, an occasional and hasty washing of small linen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopn.3
/slɒp/, U.S. /slɑp/ East Anglian dialect.
Growing underwood.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood
ronea1300
underwooda1325
rammel1338
brushetc1380
scroga1400
bushailec1400
frithing1429
brushal1430
brushc1440
ronec1440
thevec1440
garsil1483
shroga1500
cablish1594
south-bois1598
undergrowth1600
frith1605
hand timber1664
subbois1664
urith1671
brushwood1732
bush-wood1771
underbrush1775
slop1784
woodiness1796
scrub1805
shag1836
chaparral1845
underbush1849
underscrub1870
sand-brush1871
buck-brush1874
bush1879
horizontal scrub1888
tangle-wood1894
shin-tangle1905
1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. 173 Slop. The underwood in a wood.
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Slop, under-wood when growing. Norf. and Suffolk.
1804 Survey Gestingthorpe (Essex) 6 (E.D.D.) The slop of the respective occupiers pay tithe per acre when cut in the said grounds.
1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 90 Four acres of low slop, brambles, shoots, and blackthorns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopn.4
/slɒp/, U.S. /slɑp/ slang.
A policeman.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1859 in Slang Dict. 95.
1868 Morning Star 4 June I saw the b—— slops by the public-house.
1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience ii. xxi You'd better cut—the slops are after you.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopv.1
/slɒp/, U.S. /slɑp/ transitive. To provide with slops or cheap ready-made clothing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > other
wimple?c1225
pricka1275
clothe1382
addressa1393
haspc1400
to-cloutc1430
shirtc1450
gownc1485
tuft1535
passement1539
kerchief1600
muff1607
inshirt1611
insmock1611
mode1656
costume1802
slop1803
shawl1812
cravat1818
sur-invest1827
frock1828
pinafore1843
smock1847
panoply1851
underclothe1857
upholster1873
fancy dress1878
sleeve1887
to suit up1912
crinoline1915
1803 Naval Chron. 10 257 After being furnished and slopped with new cloaths, previous to their being sent on board.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopv.2
/slɒp/, U.S. /slɑp/ 1.
a. transitive. To spill or splash (liquid); to dash or lay on carelessly. Also with over.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > spill [verb (transitive)] > or splash
slop1557
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > let out > spill
shed?c1225
spilla1340
slop1557
skail1828
skedaddle1862
slob1894
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.ii Their milke slapt in corners, their creame al to sost.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 61 As hogs are apt to slop over and spill a part of their food.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 250 If you don't mind you'll slop half your beer out of the mug.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn III. 21 Now and then she would slop tons of water on her deck.
1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 41 8 It must only be just moistened, not slopped on.
b. To wash or tumble (one) out of some place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (transitive)] > out of some place
slop1839
1839 T. Hood Storm at Hastings xxiii Mrs. Snell Was slopp'd out of her seat.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 18 You get fooling about with the boat, and slop me overboard.
c. Prison slang. To empty the contents of (esp. a chamber-pot). Usually absol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > empty or clean privies [verb (intransitive)] > empty chamber-pot
slop1955
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > empty or clean privies [verb (transitive)] > empty chamber-pot
slop1955
1955 [implied in: Times 25 May 6/6 A hospital officer at the prison, said that on May 7 he was unlocking doors for ‘slopping out’ to be done. (at slopping n. b)].
1957 Listener 28 Nov. 893/3 He watched the prisoners ‘slopping out’, working, and attending classes.
1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville v. 104 The next two hours are given over to getting washed, shaved, breakfasted and ‘slopped out’.
1967 Guardian 2 June 6/1 Along the landing from his cell is a single recess for ‘slopping out’ chamber pots and wash-basins.
1973 Times 20 Dec. 2/3 At Brixton..they queue at communal lavatories to slop out their pots.
1978 ‘A. Garve’ Counterstroke i. xvi. 67 Prisoners rise at 6.30 a.m. Slop out. Clean their cells.
2. To lap up greedily or noisily; to gobble up. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. i. sig. Biiv Thy mylk slopt up, thy bacon filtched.
1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 52 Some foule-mouth'd Readers then..So slop them vp, that it would make one spew.
1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 103 They make Meshes for their Cowes,..which the Cowes will slop up like Hogs.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 11 Nif et be Loblolly, tha wut slop et oll up.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Slop up, to eat up greedily; to lick up food quickly.
3.
a. To slobber (one). rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle
spitc950
sputea1225
bespetea1240
bedravel1377
spouta1382
bespitc1384
beslobber1393
spew1526
slabber1579
beslaver1589
slaver1591
spittle1596
bespawl1602
drivel1609
bedribble1620
slop1696
bedrivel1721
slake1808
1696 T. Southerne Oroonoko ii. i Such fine folk are not used to be slopt and kiss'd.
b. To make wet with spilled liquid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > with spilled liquid
slop1721
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Slop,..to dash with Water.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) To slap, or slop a place with wet, madefacio.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 115 A large round deal table, well slopped with beer.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Slop,..to wet or dirty.
4.
a. intransitive. To prepare or drink any weak liquid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink sloppy or weak drink
slop1742
slip-slop1834
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xii. 81 She had just done drinking it [sc. tea], and could not be slopping all day. View more context for this quotation
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath i. 9 When I am got out of one fit how the devil am I to gather strength to encounter the next. Do you think it is to be done by sipping, and slopping?
b. With up: to become intoxicated. U.S. slang.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > flood or overflow [verb (intransitive)]
overfleeta1325
to-waltc1400
overflowa1425
surround1572
diluviate1599
debord1632
restagnate1653
exundate1721
slop1899
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > get drunk
drunkenc1000
to wash one's face in an ale clout1550
to shoe the goose, gosling1566
to catch, hunt the fox1599
to swallow a tavern-token1601
to read Geneva print1608
to whip the cat1622
inebriate1626
to hunt a tavern-fox1635
fox1649
mug1653
to fuddle one's cap or nose1663
to lose one's legs1770
gin1789
stone1858
to beer up1884
slop1899
to get, have, tie a bun on1901
shicker1906
souse1921
lush1926
to cop a reeler1937
to tie one on1951
1899 [implied in: ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps ii. iv. 271 The bums intended to have a great ‘sloppin'-up’ (drinking-bout). (at slopping n. b)].
1916 ‘W. Scott’ Seventeen Years in Underworld xi. 64 The illgotten gains are spent ‘slopping up’ (getting drunk).
1919 Bookman (N.Y.) Apr. 208/2 Discuss the effect of the Prohibition Amendment on a white liner. What would be his chances after its passage of procuring sufficient powders to enable him to get slopped up (a) in the State of Maine, (b) in New York City?
1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 108 No use takin' a bunch of thirsty bums along and stealin' money for them to slop up in some saloon the next day.
5.
a. To walk or travel through a place in mud or slush. Also with along or on. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > through liquid or mud
wadec1220
waselc1394
ford1675
slunk1728
slop1783
plodge1787
spatter1806
slutch1821
slumper1829
squelch1849
slush1853
splodge1896
1783 W. Beckford Dreams ii. 8 Anybody might slop through the Low Countries that pleased.
1851 H. Newland Erne 187 I really have no fancy to go slopping through the wet grass and muddy roads for nothing.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad ii. 51 Hour after hour we slopped along by the roaring torrent.
b. colloquial. With about, around, etc.: to wander aimlessly, to move in a slovenly manner; to mess about.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly
roil?c1335
gada1500
stavera1500
vaguea1525
scoterlope1574
idle1599
haika1605
saunter1671
stravaig1801
palmer1805
streel1805
taver1808
traik1818
gander1822
gallivant1823
gilravage1825
project1828
daud1831
meander1831
to knock about1833
to kick about1839
to knock round1848
piroot1858
sashay1865
june1869
tootle1902
slop1907
beetle1919
stooge1941
swan1942
the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity
trifle?a1400
loiterc1400
tiffc1440
tifflec1440
to pick a salad1520
to play the wanton1529
fiddle1530
dauntc1540
piddle1545
dally?1548
pittlea1568
pingle1574
puddle1591
to thrum caps1594
maginate1623
meecha1625
pudder1624
dabble1631
fanfreluche1653
dawdlea1656
taigle17..
niff-naff1728
tiddle1747
peddle1755
gammer1788
quiddle1789
muddle1791
browse1803
niddle1808
poke1811
fal-lal1818
potter1824
footer1825
putter1827
shaffle1828
to fool about1838
mike1838
piffle1847
mess1853
to muck about1856
tinker1856
bohemianize1857
to fool around1860
frivol1866
june1869
muss1876
to muddle about (also around)1877
slummock1877
dicker1888
moodle1893
to fart about1899
to fart about (or around)1899
plouter1899
futz1907
monkey1916
to arse around1919
to play around1929
to fuck around1931
tool1932
frig1933
boondoggle1935
to muck around1935
to screw around1935
to bugger about1937
to bugger around1939
to piss about1943
to dick around1948
to jerk around1953
fart-arse1954
to fanny around1969
slop1973
dork1982
to twat around (or about)1992
to dick about1996
1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xlv. 471 Old pictures do slop about the world in a vague way, till some aesthomenous person detects quality in them.
1922 M. Arlen ‘Piracy’ iii. xi. 236 When I said that you were too fine and I was too old to slop about Europe in a hole-and-corner way, I meant that this disorderly kind of life is unworthy of you.
1958 X. Fielding Corsair Country i. 22 So many of them slop about in cast-off men's shoes several sizes too big.
1973 Times 28 Nov. 13/6 Jimmy always says I mustn't slop about while I'm learning a piece, and I think that's good advice.
1982 TV Times Mag. 9–15 Oct. 47/1 At home..there's nothing she likes better than to ‘slop around in anything that's comfy to wear’.
6.
a. To run or flow over; to flow or dash up.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in a viscid or sloppy manner
slabber1653
slop1853
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > of something confined > spill out
spill1655
slop1853
1853 N. Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales (Chandos) 193 The king's hand trembled so much that a great deal of the wine slopped over.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 393/1 A fine wash..slopping up into the..summer-houses overhanging the river.
b. figurative. With over. To run to excess. U.S.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > go beyond bounds
overflowOE
overpassa1500
overreacha1568
to leap bounds1597
overruna1600
deborda1653
excur1656
slop1859
to hit the high spots1891
1859 C. F. Browne Wks. (1865) 124 Washington..never slopt over! The prevailin weakness of most public men is to slop over.
1896 Daily News 17 Nov. 5/2 The ‘Herald’ has ‘slopped over’ this time, but it will steady itself as soon as it gets the facts.
c. To pass over suddenly.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > change suddenly [verb (intransitive)]
fallOE
leap?c1225
chop1657
slop1900
1900 G. Swift Somerley 30 Boys ‘slop over’ from the good into the bad..in such illogical ways, that there is no setting them down under definite heads.
7. U.S. dialect and colloquial. To feed (pigs or cattle) with slops.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food or meal
sup1575
winter-feed1606
soil1608
supper1666
browse1675
cake1799
slop1848
mash1859
pair-feed1944
zero-graze1954
1848 D. Drake Pioneer Life Kentucky (1870) 92 To slop the cows..was another [labour].
1920 C. Russell Story of Nonpartisan League 63 An angry representative told them to ‘go home and slop the hogs’.
1947 Time 27 Jan. 21/2 Did you ever slop a hawg?
1966 R. G. Toepfer Witness iii. 19 First off, he'd better feed the chickens and slop the pigs.
1976 New Yorker 17 May 34/1 Your hosts..will be up at dawn to slop their pig.
Compounds
The verb stem in combination.
slop-over n. U.S. an act or instance of slopping over; also figurative.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > [noun] > slopping
slop1699
slopping1881
slop-over1908
sloppage1962
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of something confined > spilling out > instance of
spiltha1616
spilla1849
slop-over1908
1908 Z. Gale Friendship Village 275 I see 'em all sprinkled along comin' from the funeral—neighbours an' friends an' just folks—an' most of 'em livin' in Friendship peaceful an'—barrin' slopovers—doin' the level best they could.
1952 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 5 Jan. 17/4 The ordinary foams used in fire-fighting do the rest of the job. The job is easy because there is no slop-over, frothing or expansion of the hot oil layer.
1977 Time 9 May 26/2 My motive in everything I was saying or certainly thinking at the time was not to try to cover up a criminal action but—to be sure that as far as any slip-over—or should I say slop-over, I think, would be a better word—any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people.
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