单词 | slop-work |
释义 | slop-workn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1849 |
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