| 单词 | slippery |
| 释义 | slippery adj. 1. difficult to hold firmly because of smoothness, wetness, sliminess, or elusive motion. 2. (of a surface) difficult to stand on, causing slips by its smoothness or muddiness. 3. unreliable, unscrupulous, shifty. 4. (of a subject) requiring tactful handling. Phrases and idioms slippery elm 1. the N. American red elm, Ulmus fulva. 2. the medicinal inner bark of this. slippery slope a course leading to disaster. Derivatives slipperily adv. slipperiness n. Etymology: prob. coined by Coverdale (1535) after Luther's schlipfferig, MHG slipferig f. slipfern, slipfen f. Gmc: partly f. slipper slippery (now dial.) f. OE slipor f. Gmc |
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