单词 | slip-slop |
释义 | slip-slopn. 1. A sloppy compound used as a food, beverage, or medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > sloppy food pap1286 messa1500 pults?1550 slop1658 slip-slop1675 soss1691 slop-dash1817 slosh1819 sozzle1823 slush1898 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > sloppy medicine > [noun] slip-slop1675 sozzle1823 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 49 No, thou shalt feed, instead of these, Or your slip-slap of Curds and Whey, On Nectar and Ambrosia. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 241 Such Cordials, and other compounded Slip-slops as the Sick are forced continually to swallow down. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 151 To run to Apothecaries Shops for this or that whimsical Slip-slop, which may be told him as a Nostrum. 1754 Connoisseur No. 19 When the jellies and slip-slops were coming in, the beef was carried off. 1796 M. Robinson Angelina I. 148 I hate slip-slops, I never taste tea. 1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxiv. 20 At length the coffee was announc'd,..‘And since the meagre slip-slop's made, I think the call should be obey'd.’ 2. a. A blunder in the use of words, esp. the ludicrous misuse of one word for another; the habit of making mistakes of this nature. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature > instance of slip-slop1788 slip-sloppism1803 malaprop1814 malapropism1830 malapropoism1834 Dundrearyism1862 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature slip-sloppism1803 malapropism1830 slip-slop1837 malapropoism1893 1788 F. Burney Diary 8 Jan. (1842) IV. 14 Then he told us a great number of comic slip-slops, of the first Lord Baltimore, who made a constant misuse of one word for another. 1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 220 One of the party (amongst other slipslops) saying instead of Pasticcios, he liked Pistachios. 1837 J. Morier Abel Allnutt xxxii. 187 Mrs. Goold Woodby would usually exert her talent in slip-slop, by calling the last [sc. Curius Dentatus] ‘Curious 'tatoes’. b. A person given to making such blunders. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature > user of slip-slopa1791 a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) xxii. 93 These slip-slops are frequently of the rank he has drawn his lady. 1857 Lady Canning in A. J. C. Hare Two Noble Lives (1893) II. 202 What by some old official slip-slop is called Provincial (meaning Provisional) Commander-in-Chief. 3. a. Twaddle; loose or trifling talk or writing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1811 J. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) I. vii. 149 No one observation the Regent has made yet out of the commonest slip-slop. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 170 Some man..cleaned up the slovenly sentences, and gave the lax maudlin slipslop a sort of consistency. 1886 Athenæum 30 Oct. 559/3 In..his history this style is wanting, and is replaced by modern slipslop. b. A tag or phrase. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] locution?a1475 phrase1530 saying1530 comma1592 speecha1599 standa1626 gramm1647 dictiona1660 roada1690 slip-slop1823 construct1871 group word1888 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xlvii. 78 ‘Cosi Viaggino i Ricchi!’ (Excuse a foreign slipslop now and then). 4. a. U.S. (See quot. 1859.) ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 416 Slip-slops, old shoes turned down at the heel. b. A kind of beach sandal; = flip-flop n. 5. Chiefly South African. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of alpargata1613 opanka1778 pampootie1846 kaparrang1867 huarache1887 chappal1893 bakya1916 platform sandal1940 jandal1950 flip-flop1958 thonged sandal1958 thong sandal1965 toe-thong sandal1966 thong1967 slip-slop1971 1971 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Feb. 29 Beach-thongs, sandles [sic] made of rubber..have a great many names here—sloppies, slip-slops, plakkies, etc. 1974 ‘G. Black’ Golden Cockatrice iv. 66 I couldn't believe they had my shoe size too, almost relieved to find only a pair of slip-slops. 1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle ii. 31 Knotted blouse, blue jeans and slip-slop sandals. Derivatives ˈslip-ˌsloppery n. slipslop condition or methods. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] undaftiness1555 slutterya1586 messiness1836 unneatness1836 untidiness1845 slip-sloppery1848 unkemptness1856 mussiness1869 untrimmedness1883 streelishness1936 1848 Illustr. London News 12 Feb. 88/3 The general slip-sloppery of its warehouses. ˈslip-ˌsloppish adj. of the nature of slip-slop. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1797 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 223 ‘Engages the eye,’ applied to a gibbet, strikes me as slipsloppish. ˈslip-ˌsloppism n. = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature slip-sloppism1803 malapropism1830 slip-slop1837 malapropoism1893 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > of a ludicrous nature > instance of slip-slop1788 slip-sloppism1803 malaprop1814 malapropism1830 malapropoism1834 Dundrearyism1862 1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale III. 228 Slip-sopism [sic] is not confined to females, now-a-days, I perceive. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 4 A body of excavators (navigators our villagers by an ingenious slip-slopism were pleased to call them). ˈslip-ˌsloppy adj. wet, sloppy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) wetc893 moista1398 waterya1398 moistya1500 waterish1545 washy1566 rotten1567 slabby1653 weety1658 late1673 fresh1790 slottery1790 soft1812 givey1829 juicy1837 sploshy1838 sposhy1842 slip-sloppya1845 splishy-splashyc1850 shabby1853 soppy1872 sappy1885 a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 233 There was no taking refuge too then,..On a slip-sloppy day, in a cab or a 'bus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slip-slopadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in application of words > with ludicrous effect slip-slop1766 malaprop1815 malapropian1860 malapropistic1978 1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 105 Memorandums..become, as Captain H—— expressed it once, by a lucky slip-slop Phrase, Remorandums. a1776 G. Colman Posthumous. Lett. (1820) Add. 335 Her dialect is particularly vulgar..not by murdering words in the slip-slop way, but by a mean twang in the pronunciation. 1809 Sporting Mag. 33 252 A slip-slop Colonel having sent for an architect to construct a mausoleum. 1824 L.-M. Hawkins Mem. I. 140 (note) Is the reply of Quin to a slip-slop milliner at Bath very trite? 2. a. Having no substance or solidity; sloppy, feeble, trifling. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] feeblec1400 colourlessc1425 flagging1540 pithless1555 blanched1570 toothless1592 unpointed1604 unsinewed1604 jejune1615 low-pitched1622 unsinewy?1623 macilent1624 flaccid1647 insinewy1653 unsubstanceda1658 incogent1667 pointless1673 languida1677 enervatea1704 unaccentuated1716 unnervate1725 lank1729 unforcible1754 nerveless1763 weak1771 flabby1793 slip-slop1814 tinkling1822 exsanguinea1834 twittery1840 slipshod1842 under-coloured1870 shaftless1881 thin1890 unaccented1893 wimpish1925 wimp1979 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 84 We may again expect in the slip-slop prints the usual selection of important incidents. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 2 I..have abandoned her to the slip-slop attentions of the shame-faced George. 1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Sept. 561 A system of swindling..arising out of the loose slip-slop legal procedure. b. Of discourse, writings, style, etc. ΚΠ 1827 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 27 May 321/1 Like the slip-slop, wishy-washy..speeches of Lords in the Upper House. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 635 The abstruse sciences are reduced to slip-slop literature for the young. a1873 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) II. 238 A loose slip-slop style of English composition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2020). slip-slopv. 1. intransitive. (See quots. and cf. slip-slop n. 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > err linguistically [verb (intransitive)] > in use of words slip-slopa1791 malaprop1959 a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) 93 There is a grosser misapplication of words, which, from a character..delineated by Fielding,..has been called slip-slopping. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Slipslopping, misnaming and misapplying any hard word. 2. To drink a sloppy beverage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink sloppy or weak drink slop1742 slip-slop1834 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal I. 297 The Capitol..was quite deserted, the world, thank Heaven, being all slip-slopping in coffee houses. 3. To slip or move about in a sloppy manner or with a flapping sound. Also used adverbially. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with flapping noise slip-slop1870 slip-slap1926 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > shuffle or drag the feet shuffle1576 shauchle1721 slare1726 shaffle1781 scuffle1825 slodge1829 scuff1847 slip-slop1870 slur1889 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > make flapping sound slip-slop1870 whicker1926 1870 B. L. Farjeon Grif I. viii. 167 The dirty broken bluchers in which Grif's feet slip-slopped constantly. 1887 R. Jefferies Amaryllis at Fair vi So they paddled along to the fair, slip-slop, in the dust. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xviii. 238 At the farther end the great churn could be seen revolving, and its slip-slopping heard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1675adj.1766v.a1791 |
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