sloppyadj.

Brit.

/ˈslɒpi/, U.S.

/ˈslɑpi/

Forms: Also 1700s (1800s dialect) slappy.

Etymology: < slop n.² + -y suffix¹.

1. Of ground, etc.: Very wet and splashy; covered with water or thin mud.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective]

fen-lichc1000

fennyc1000

mooryOE

marshya1382

marshlyc1410

moorisha1492

queachy?a1500

marish1549

plashya1552

foggy?1555

fen-like1561

undrained1573

fennish1577

boggy1587

paludious1595

wealy1601

marishy1607

snapy1607

uliginous1610

quagmiry1623

paludiate1632

boggish1633

pooly1652

swampy1661

spouty1677

gouty1686

pondy1687

morassy1699

sloppy1699

lairy17..

soggya1722

swampish1725

splashy1727

squashy1751

haggy1765

gaulty1784

slumpy1823

sumpy1824

paludine1852

paludic1854

paludinal1856

paludian1860

paludinous1866

paludal1871

paludial1875

morassic1893

muskeggy1894

swamped1899

1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Gacheux,..slabby, slappy, plashy.

1707 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. X. 75 Nov. 3rd. Cool. 11. Snow. 12. Sloppy.

1715 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XXXVI. 328 Sloppy in the morn(ing).

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sloppy,..plashy.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 190 Notwithstanding some trifling inconveniences of sloppy roads.

1798 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 215 It is snowing fast at this time, and the most sloppy walking I ever saw.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 50 Cricket on very sloppy ground.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers l. 542 The streets wet and sloppy.

1890 F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family 4 A wet, sloppy, windy, October day.

2. Of a semi-liquid consistency; watery and disagreeable:

a. Of snow, etc.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective]

slabby1542

pottagy1565

uliginous1576

softa1593

slabbery1600

creamy1610

slutchy1627

slabberish1648

pappy1662

semifluid1775

sloppy1794

sloshy1797

custardy1824

viscous1830

gruelly1838

sposhy1842

squishy1847

squitchy1851

pea-soupy1859

porridgey1859

soupy1869

custardly1870

gloopy1929

gunky1937

spawn-like1938

squodgy1970

gloppy1976

1794 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest vi. 43 Sloppy pools In the surrounding pulp lay stagnant.

1830 Q. Rev. 42 81 You have the varieties of deep and fresh snow, soft and sloppy, or covered with a crackling coat of ice.

1846 Peter Parley's Ann. 10 The rain began to fall, the ice to get sloppy.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 27 A glacier, the ice of which was covered by sloppy snow.

b. Of articles of diet.

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1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 412 Pure indeed!.. Nasty, sloppy stuff.

1828 Sporting Mag. 22 209 She has lived on sloppy mashes and green meat.

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xi. 108 Having had to eat sloppy puddings with a fork instead of a spoon.

a. Splashed or soiled with liquid; wet from slopping; covered with slops; messy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > in a messy or dirty way

sloppy1839

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > splashed or spattered with wet substance

besmotteredc1405

bysparkit1513

bespattered1667

spattered1785

slopped1806

splashed1837

sloppy1839

sploshy1881

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 94 A silver coffee-pot, an egg-shell, and sloppy china for one.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 600 Idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables.

1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. viii. 155 Passing a very sloppy cup recklessly towards her.

b. colloquial. Of the sea: choppy.

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > choppy

chapping1622

chopping1623

cockling1625

popping1661

short1663

coppling1667

lumpy1857

choppy1867

snappish1867

chopped1880

loppy1883

lopping1887

popply1889

sloppy1970

1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 26 Mushy, or sloppy surf, indicates a troubled, choppy water surface which would be difficult to ride.

1977 Austral. Sailing Jan. 69/1 However the sloppy Botany Bay conditions plus a series of freakish thunder storms made the series wide open.

a. Weak, feeble; lacking in firmness or precision; slovenly.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > slovenly

largea1400

scribbled1550

slipshod1814

spewy1829

dashy1844

slip-along1849

dauby1878

sloppy1881

slipshoddy1882

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 73 Each after a fashion of his own—more or less dignified or sloppy, as he is more or less afraid of being caught.

1881 Academy 15 Oct. 289 Too prone to indulge in sloppy English.

1897 Bookman Jan. 123/2 Seventeen sloppy and scandalously inaccurate pages.

b. colloquial. Weakly sentimental.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective]

sugary1591

maudlina1631

mawkish1702

sickly1766

emetic1770

mawky1773

pamby1820

sentimental1823

saccharine1841

sticky1841

mushy1848

sentimentalizing1856

Christmas card1860

maumish1866

slobbery1875

namby-pamby1883

sloppy1883

slushy1889

sentimentalistic1904

marshmallowy1907

hearts and flowers1911

slobby1913

soppy1918

meltyc1921

lavender1928

saccharescent1930

schmaltzya1934

sloshy1933

gooey1935

icky1938

cheesy1943

drippy1952

soupy1953

squishy1953

saccharined1962

gloopy1965

yechy1969

yucky1970

sucky1971

yuck1971

schmoozy1976

the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > [adjective] > full of mawkish sentiment

soppy1918

sloppy1919

sappy1928

1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlviii. 482 The sloppy twaddle in the way of answers, furnished by Manchester.

1896 G. Ade Artie ix. 81 And last night when I was sloppy I thought she was the best ever.

1904 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 53 A nice sloppy letter of introduction.

1919 J. C. Snaith Love Lane xxxi. 163 The Corporal stopped suddenly, took Melia in his arms and kissed her. It was a sloppy thing to do, unworthy of old married people.

1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets ii. 53 Kate said with a funny look, as if she were saying something a tiny bit embarrassing, on the sloppy side.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xv. 326 Someone considered over-affectionate is said to be soppy, sloppy, gormless, a drip, or a clot.

5. Of dress: Loose, slack, ill-fitting.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > that fits in specific way > loose-fitting

wide?c1225

unbraced?1518

lax1621

loose-flowing1777

uncinctured1790

sloppy1825

sacky1891

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Sloppy, loose, wide.

1852 S. R. Maitland Eight Ess. 236 Adorned with a sloppy dressing~gown.

1882 Queen 7 Oct. (Cassell) It must not be imagined that, to be easy, dress must necessarily be sloppy.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic.

sloppy-minded adj.

ΚΠ

1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 15 Sept. (1946) 18 Sloppyminded lunatics.

1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular ii. 43 He had a sharp tongue for the sloppy-minded and the half-baked.

sloppy-mindedness n.

ΚΠ

1976 Listener 22 July 89/2 This final hymn to sloppy-mindedness.

C2.

Sloppy Joe n. (also sloppy joe) colloquial (a) used attributively and absol. to designate a loose-fitting sweater; (b) U.S. a kind of hamburger in which the minced-beef filling is made into a kind of meat sauce; (c) a slovenly person.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > hamburger

quarter-pounder1847

Hamburg steak1884

Hamburger1889

Salisbury steak1897

cheeseburgerc1930

nutburger1934

Wimpy1935

burger1939

lamburger1939

beefburger1940

sausage-burger1942

Sloppy Joe1942

turtleburger1946

mooseburger1948

jumboburger1959

Big Mac1969

soy burger1973

slider1974

soya burger1974

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness > one who

sloven1684

scamper1851

slob1876

pot-shotter1904

Sloppy Joe1942

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jumper or jersey > types of > other

pointelle1892

turtle-neck1897

slip-over1919

polo jersey1925

polo jumper1925

polo sweater1925

Sloppy Joe1942

polo neck1959

thick-knit1961

sweater-shirt1964

skinny-rib1965

skivvy1967

mock1989

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §87/32 Sloppy Joe, a loose cardigan sweater.

1943 Knitted Outerwear Times 15 May 1/1 You can't look like Lana Turner in a Sloppy Joe. Well—maybe Lana could.

1944 Life 15 May 67/1 (caption) Traditional garb of all school girls is ‘Sloppy Joe’ sweater, single string of pearls, pleated skirt, socks and shoes.

1958 E. Hyams Taking it Easy ii. 147 The young men were dressed in fashionable jeans and sloppy joes.

1961 R. E. Church Burger Cook Bk. i. 42 Sloppy Joes…ground beef..onions..celery..sweet pickle relish..brown sugar..Worcestershire sauce..chili sauce..vinegar..green pepper..hamburger buns.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sloppy joe.., a man who is negligent of his clothes or personal appearance.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 99 Sloppy Joe, a careless, shiftless person.

1974 Washington Post 1 Aug. d1/2 Bill Myer..sits in the cafeteria..eating sloppy joes.

1980 Washington Post 17 Jan. b5/1 Teen-agers wore a baggier variety [of sweater], often pairing ‘sloppy joe’ sweater..with pleated skirts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sloppy
释义	sloppyadj. Brit. /ˈslɒpi/, U.S. /ˈslɑpi/ Forms: Also 1700s (1800s dialect) slappy. Etymology: < slop n.² + -y suffix¹. 1. Of ground, etc.: Very wet and splashy; covered with water or thin mud. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] fen-lichc1000 fennyc1000 mooryOE marshya1382 marshlyc1410 moorisha1492 queachy?a1500 marish1549 plashya1552 foggy?1555 fen-like1561 undrained1573 fennish1577 boggy1587 paludious1595 wealy1601 marishy1607 snapy1607 uliginous1610 quagmiry1623 paludiate1632 boggish1633 pooly1652 swampy1661 spouty1677 gouty1686 pondy1687 morassy1699 sloppy1699 lairy17.. soggya1722 swampish1725 splashy1727 squashy1751 haggy1765 gaulty1784 slumpy1823 sumpy1824 paludine1852 paludic1854 paludinal1856 paludian1860 paludinous1866 paludal1871 paludial1875 morassic1893 muskeggy1894 swamped1899 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Gacheux,..slabby, slappy, plashy. 1707 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. X. 75 Nov. 3rd. Cool. 11. Snow. 12. Sloppy. 1715 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XXXVI. 328 Sloppy in the morn(ing). 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sloppy,..plashy. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 190 Notwithstanding some trifling inconveniences of sloppy roads. 1798 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 215 It is snowing fast at this time, and the most sloppy walking I ever saw. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 50 Cricket on very sloppy ground. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers l. 542 The streets wet and sloppy. 1890 F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family 4 A wet, sloppy, windy, October day. 2. Of a semi-liquid consistency; watery and disagreeable: a. Of snow, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective] slabby1542 pottagy1565 uliginous1576 softa1593 slabbery1600 creamy1610 slutchy1627 slabberish1648 pappy1662 semifluid1775 sloppy1794 sloshy1797 custardy1824 viscous1830 gruelly1838 sposhy1842 squishy1847 squitchy1851 pea-soupy1859 porridgey1859 soupy1869 custardly1870 gloopy1929 gunky1937 spawn-like1938 squodgy1970 gloppy1976 1794 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest vi. 43 Sloppy pools In the surrounding pulp lay stagnant. 1830 Q. Rev. 42 81 You have the varieties of deep and fresh snow, soft and sloppy, or covered with a crackling coat of ice. 1846 Peter Parley's Ann. 10 The rain began to fall, the ice to get sloppy. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 27 A glacier, the ice of which was covered by sloppy snow. b. Of articles of diet. ΚΠ 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 412 Pure indeed!.. Nasty, sloppy stuff. 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 209 She has lived on sloppy mashes and green meat. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xi. 108 Having had to eat sloppy puddings with a fork instead of a spoon. 3. a. Splashed or soiled with liquid; wet from slopping; covered with slops; messy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > in a messy or dirty way sloppy1839 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > splashed or spattered with wet substance besmotteredc1405 bysparkit1513 bespattered1667 spattered1785 slopped1806 splashed1837 sloppy1839 sploshy1881 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 94 A silver coffee-pot, an egg-shell, and sloppy china for one. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 600 Idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables. 1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. viii. 155 Passing a very sloppy cup recklessly towards her. b. colloquial. Of the sea: choppy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > choppy chapping1622 chopping1623 cockling1625 popping1661 short1663 coppling1667 lumpy1857 choppy1867 snappish1867 chopped1880 loppy1883 lopping1887 popply1889 sloppy1970 1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 26 Mushy, or sloppy surf, indicates a troubled, choppy water surface which would be difficult to ride. 1977 Austral. Sailing Jan. 69/1 However the sloppy Botany Bay conditions plus a series of freakish thunder storms made the series wide open. 4. a. Weak, feeble; lacking in firmness or precision; slovenly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > slovenly largea1400 scribbled1550 slipshod1814 spewy1829 dashy1844 slip-along1849 dauby1878 sloppy1881 slipshoddy1882 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 73 Each after a fashion of his own—more or less dignified or sloppy, as he is more or less afraid of being caught. 1881 Academy 15 Oct. 289 Too prone to indulge in sloppy English. 1897 Bookman Jan. 123/2 Seventeen sloppy and scandalously inaccurate pages. b. colloquial. Weakly sentimental. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] sugary1591 maudlina1631 mawkish1702 sickly1766 emetic1770 mawky1773 pamby1820 sentimental1823 saccharine1841 sticky1841 mushy1848 sentimentalizing1856 Christmas card1860 maumish1866 slobbery1875 namby-pamby1883 sloppy1883 slushy1889 sentimentalistic1904 marshmallowy1907 hearts and flowers1911 slobby1913 soppy1918 meltyc1921 lavender1928 saccharescent1930 schmaltzya1934 sloshy1933 gooey1935 icky1938 cheesy1943 drippy1952 soupy1953 squishy1953 saccharined1962 gloopy1965 yechy1969 yucky1970 sucky1971 yuck1971 schmoozy1976 the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > [adjective] > full of mawkish sentiment soppy1918 sloppy1919 sappy1928 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlviii. 482 The sloppy twaddle in the way of answers, furnished by Manchester. 1896 G. Ade Artie ix. 81 And last night when I was sloppy I thought she was the best ever. 1904 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 53 A nice sloppy letter of introduction. 1919 J. C. Snaith Love Lane xxxi. 163 The Corporal stopped suddenly, took Melia in his arms and kissed her. It was a sloppy thing to do, unworthy of old married people. 1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets ii. 53 Kate said with a funny look, as if she were saying something a tiny bit embarrassing, on the sloppy side. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xv. 326 Someone considered over-affectionate is said to be soppy, sloppy, gormless, a drip, or a clot. 5. Of dress: Loose, slack, ill-fitting. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > that fits in specific way > loose-fitting wide?c1225 unbraced?1518 lax1621 loose-flowing1777 uncinctured1790 sloppy1825 sacky1891 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Sloppy, loose, wide. 1852 S. R. Maitland Eight Ess. 236 Adorned with a sloppy dressing~gown. 1882 Queen 7 Oct. (Cassell) It must not be imagined that, to be easy, dress must necessarily be sloppy. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic. sloppy-minded adj. ΚΠ 1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 15 Sept. (1946) 18 Sloppyminded lunatics. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular ii. 43 He had a sharp tongue for the sloppy-minded and the half-baked. sloppy-mindedness n. ΚΠ 1976 Listener 22 July 89/2 This final hymn to sloppy-mindedness. C2. Sloppy Joe n. (also sloppy joe) colloquial (a) used attributively and absol. to designate a loose-fitting sweater; (b) U.S. a kind of hamburger in which the minced-beef filling is made into a kind of meat sauce; (c) a slovenly person. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > hamburger quarter-pounder1847 Hamburg steak1884 Hamburger1889 Salisbury steak1897 cheeseburgerc1930 nutburger1934 Wimpy1935 burger1939 lamburger1939 beefburger1940 sausage-burger1942 Sloppy Joe1942 turtleburger1946 mooseburger1948 jumboburger1959 Big Mac1969 soy burger1973 slider1974 soya burger1974 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness > one who sloven1684 scamper1851 slob1876 pot-shotter1904 Sloppy Joe1942 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jumper or jersey > types of > other pointelle1892 turtle-neck1897 slip-over1919 polo jersey1925 polo jumper1925 polo sweater1925 Sloppy Joe1942 polo neck1959 thick-knit1961 sweater-shirt1964 skinny-rib1965 skivvy1967 mock1989 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §87/32 Sloppy Joe, a loose cardigan sweater. 1943 Knitted Outerwear Times 15 May 1/1 You can't look like Lana Turner in a Sloppy Joe. Well—maybe Lana could. 1944 Life 15 May 67/1 (caption) Traditional garb of all school girls is ‘Sloppy Joe’ sweater, single string of pearls, pleated skirt, socks and shoes. 1958 E. Hyams Taking it Easy ii. 147 The young men were dressed in fashionable jeans and sloppy joes. 1961 R. E. Church Burger Cook Bk. i. 42 Sloppy Joes…ground beef..onions..celery..sweet pickle relish..brown sugar..Worcestershire sauce..chili sauce..vinegar..green pepper..hamburger buns. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sloppy joe.., a man who is negligent of his clothes or personal appearance. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 99 Sloppy Joe, a careless, shiftless person. 1974 Washington Post 1 Aug. d1/2 Bill Myer..sits in the cafeteria..eating sloppy joes. 1980 Washington Post 17 Jan. b5/1 Teen-agers wore a baggier variety [of sweater], often pairing ‘sloppy joe’ sweater..with pleated skirts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1699
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