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slip-slop
▪ I. slip-slop, n. (ˈslɪpslɒp) Also 7 (8 Sc.) -slap, 9– slipslop. [f. slop n.2, with variation of vowel. In sense 2 with allusion to the mistakes in language made by Mrs. Slipslop in Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742).] 1. A sloppy compound used as a food, beverage, or medicine.1675 Cotton Burlesque u...
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Slip-Slop-Slap
Slip-Slop-Slap (originally Slip! Slop! Slap!) is a mnemonic slogan for reducing unhealthy sun exposure by slipping on a shirt or rash guard, slopping on sunblock, and slapping on a sun hat. It was prominent in Australia and New Zealand during the 1980s, originating as the jingle in a televised publi...
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slip-slap
▪ I. slip-slap, n. (ˈslɪpslæp) [f. slap v.1, with usual variation of vowel.] † 1. ? A slipper. Obs.—11669 Penn No Cross xvii. §5 (1682) 336 Shoes and Slip-slaps lac'd with Silk or Silver-Lace. 2. The repeated flapping sound caused by loosely-worn shoes.1890 D. Gerard Lady Baby vi, The well-known sli...
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slop-dash
slop-dash rare—1. = slip-slop 1.c 1810 M. Edgeworth Rose, Thistle, & Shamrock iii. ii, Does he expect tea can be keeping hot for him to the end of time? He'll have nothing but slop-dash.
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spoonish
ˈspoonish, a. [f. spoon n. 7.] Foolish.1833 Fraser's Mag. VIII. 627 A more boobyish, spoonish specimen of slip-slop was never submitted.
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of the project: "With the exception of a few pictures by Joshua [Reynolds] and [John] Opie, and—I hope I may add—myself, it was such a collection of slip-slop
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slipper
▪ I. slipper, n. (ˈslɪpə(r)) Also 5 sclypper, 5–6 slyppar, -er; 6 slep(p)er. [f. slip v.1 + -er1.] I. 1. a. A light and usually heelless covering for the foot, capable of being easily slipped on, and chiefly employed for indoor wear.1478 Paston Lett. III. 237, ij. schyrtes, and a peyer of sclyppers....
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wishy-washy
wishy-washy, a. (int., n.) (ˈwɪʃɪˌwɒʃɪ) [Reduplicated formation on washy a. (sense 2); cf. the earlier swish-swash (wishy-washy drink).] 1. Of drink (or liquid food): Weak and insipid; sloppy. Also dial. as n. (see quot. 1824).1791 Massachusetts Spy 12 May 2/1 He..looked at the broth—and d―d it for ...
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up
▪ I. up, n. (ʌp) [From up adv.1 and adv.2 or a.] 1. a. One who or that which is up, in various senses. rare.1536 Rem. Sedition i b, Say, farewell welth, where lust is lyked, and lawe refused, where uppe is sette downe, and downe sette uppe. 1759 Sterne Tr. Shandy i. xi, With us, you see, the case is...
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