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单词 slopy
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slopyadj.n.

/ˈsləʊpi/
Forms: Also slopey.
Etymology: < slope n.1 or slope v.1 + -y suffix1.
A. adj.
Sloping.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping
pyramidala1398
shoringc1503
slopec1503
pitching1519
current?1523
battering1589
pitched1594
aslope1599
sloping1610
shelving1615
stooping1621
raking1665
sloped1683
shedding1688
slopy1740
raked1948
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 229 When they see the dead Corpse of the unhappy Pamela dragg'd out to these slopy Banks.
a1793 G. White Invitation in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1813) 565 Here nature hangs her slopy woods to sight.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. v. 86 A green slopy bank of land.
1866 Amer. Newsp. in Sat. Rev. 14 July 40/1 The tender meetings on the slopy swards of the park.
B. n.
U.S. slang. (depreciative and offensive). A person from East or South-East Asia; a Chinese person. Cf. slope n.1 6, slopehead n. at slope- comb. form 2.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > person by shape of eyes or forehead > [noun]
slant-eye1929
slant1942
slope1948
slopy1948
roundeye1955
slopehead1966
1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites v. 107 ‘And you'll find it mighty hard, son, to convince Petroleum Developments that the fields aren't as important as a bunch of flea-bitten slopeys!’ ‘Well, go on.’ ‘Okay—as long as you understand that oil's a pretty important commodity—and Chinese ain't.’
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xii. 85 One might assume that contempt for American imperialism would by now have produced Chinese equivalents of insulting American epithets such as slopeys, slant-eyes and chinks.
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