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ˈslip-string Now dial.
Also 6 slypstryng, 7 slipp-string(e, 6–7, 9 slipstring.
[f. slip v.1 + string n.]
1. One who deserves to be hanged; a rogue or rascal, a shifty person.
1546J. Heywood Prov. ii. vii. (1562) I iiij, Euery good thyng, Thou lettest euen slyp, lyke a waghalter slypstryng. 1575Gascoigne Weedes, Supposes Wks. (1587) 25 If he spie a slipstring by y⊇ way, such another as himselfe, a page, a lakey or a dwarfe. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. (Grosart) V. 85 She not only gaue me the slip, but had welnie made me a slipstring. 1611Cotgr., Pendardeau, a little crackrope, young slipstring. 1624Heywood Captives v. iii, Now if thou bee'st wyse drawe thy neck out of the collar, doo, Slipp-stringe, doo. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Slip-string, a knave, a mean rascal, one whom the gallows groans for.
2. attrib. Of persons or actions:
a. Roguish, rascally.
b. dial. (See quot. 1854.)
1629Dekker Londons Tempe Dram. Wks. 1873 IV. 123 We are making arrowes for my slip-string sonne. 16..MS. Bright 170 fol. 1 (Halliw.), Such a slippstring trick As never till now befell us heeretofore, Nor shall, I hope, befall us any more. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. vi, You are a sort of a slip-string gentleman. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Slip-string ways, careless, slovenly ways; applied almost exclusively to servants who slight their work. |