ˈslip-shoe Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6 slippe, 7 slip(p)-shooe.
[f. slip v.1 + shoe n. Cf. OE. slypescó ‘soccus’.]
A light or loose shoe; a slipper.
| 1555 W. Watreman Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 250 They vse a maner of slippe shooes, that may lightly be putte of and on. 1592 Arden of Feversham v. i, For in his slipshoe did I find some rushes. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. (1637) 63 The rest..going in yellow or red slip-shooes, picked at the toe. a 1697 Aubrey Lives (1898) I. 122 He went not out of the College gates,..but was in slip-shoes. 1719 S. Sewall Diary 15 Sept. (1882) III. 228 Going out to call the Fisherman in Slip-shoes, I fell flat upon the pavement. 1762 Sterne Tr. Shandy vi. xix, The open shoe. The close shoe. The slip shoe. 1859 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 416 A loose shoe or slipper is called a slip-shoe in Norfolk [England]. 1886 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 680 Slip-shoes,..an old loose pair of shoes worn at night after taking off the half bats. |
Hence † slip-shoed a., slipshod. Obs.
| 1702 E. Baynard Cold Baths ii. (1709) 385 A Gentleman..having strain'd his Ankle..went lame and slip-shoo'd for at least a Year and a half. 1726 G. Roberts Four Yrs. Voy. 30, I..was Slip-shoe'd, and without Stockings, being just as I turn'd out of my Cabin. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. 156 They were all slip-shoed. |