ˈslop-basin
[f. slop n.2 4.]
A basin for holding slops. Also in fig. phrase (cf. tea-cup c).
| 1778 Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 628 A couple of slop-basons full of the grounds of old quass. 1796 F. Burney Camilla II. 228 Is it tea? It looks prodigiously as if just imported out of the slop basin. 1829 Lytton Disowned 16 Raising her hand to a shelf on which stood an Indian slop-basin. 1861 Dickens Gt. Expect. xxvii, Splashing it into the slop-basin. 1878 Froude Table-Talk 159, I have got into Cæsar, and think no more of this storm in a slop-basin. |
Hence slop-basinful.
| 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. xvii, A slop-basinful of mustard. |