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单词 slop-work
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slop-workn.

Etymology: < slop n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈslop-work.
1. The making of slop-garments; the articles thus made.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > cheap or inferior
slops1663
slop?1798
slop-work1849
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making slop garments
slop-working1850
slop-work1890
1849 Knife & Fork 34 A charge of illegally pawning slop-work.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xviii. 160 The waistcoat of sprigs—mere slop-work, if the truth must be known.
1885 Queen 26 Sept. (Cassell) Worse done than if sent to the worst slop-work shop in the East-end.
1890 Spectator 4 Oct. The girls do not retain the use of their needle:..and the slop-work is so cheap.
2. Work cheaply and imperfectly done.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > other types of work
church worka1225
kirk work1418
fieldwork1441
labour of love1592
life's work1660
shop work1696
outwork1707
private practice1724
tide-work1739
sales-work1775
marshing1815
work in progress1815
life-work1837
relief work1844
sharp practice1847
near work1850
slop-work1861
repetition work1866
side work1875
rework1878
wage-slavery1886
work in progress1890
war work1891
busywork1893
screen work1912
staff-work1923
gig work1927
knowledge work1959
WIP1966
telework1970
playwork1986
laboratory work2002
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 216 He would not risk his reputation..on slop-work.
1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 267 The starvation wages on which it [sc. capital] can get its slop-work done.

Derivatives

ˈslop-worker n. a person who does slop-work.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making slop garments > one who
slop-worker1850
1850 C. Kingsley Cheap Clothes & Nasty 22 It served as a blanket to the fever-stricken slopworker.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 302/2 The slop-workers..will make nine such sized mantles in a week.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. 133 The little sleeping slop-worker who had pricked her tiny finger so.
1890 Spectator 4 Oct. 438/2 That slop-workers should be trained to sew, does not enter into their programme.
ˈslop-working n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making slop garments
slop-working1850
slop-work1890
1850 C. Kingsley Cheap Clothes & Nasty 26 Fresh victims are being driven by penury into the slop-working trade.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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