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Definition: Slipper |
SlipperNoun1. Low footwear that can be slip on and off easily; usually worn indoors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slipper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Similar in usage to a shoe, a slipper is an indoors version along the same vein.Shoes are generally made of canvas, plastic, or rubber. Boots are generally made out of either leather of a leatheresque synthetic compound, and have hard rubber soles.
Slippers are frequently made out of either felt or soft leather (which may or may not be lined with a soft material such as felt). Some slippers, particularly those meant to be used near pools, bathrooms, or other wet places, are made of plastic or rubber.
Slippers may be shaped like a shoe (foot inserted through top), or may have no heel, so the foot can be slipped in the back.
The term "slipper" is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms flip-flop and sandal.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slipper."
Synonym: SlipperSynonym: carpet slipper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slipper |
| English words defined with "slipper": bootee, bootees, bootie, booties ♦ Impatiens ♦ moccasin flower, mule, mules ♦ Pantofle ♦ Sandaliform, scuff, scuffs, Slipshoe ♦ Venus's slipper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slipper": Glass Slipper, Golden Shoe. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "slipper": slippery. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Slipper" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (casual, casuals, slip-on shoe, slip-ons, slipper), Swedish (scuff). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and no glass slipper. (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Scott and Zelda and I shared a cab over to the Stork Club where we drank pink champagne out of Zelda's slipper. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) At midnight, I'll turn into a pumpkin and drive away in my glass slipper. (Roman Holiday; writing credit: Ian McLellan Hunter) Yes, I left behind a glass slipper and a business card in case the prince is really dumb (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Glass Slipper (1955) Cinderella and the Magic Slipper (1917) My Lady's Slipper (1916) Her Little Slipper (1911) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pink lady's slipper - Cypripedeum acaule. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Cypripedium californicum, commonly known as California Lady's Slipper. Credit: Russ Holmes. |
 | California Lady's Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium californicum) near Goolaway Gap. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | Farshot of clustered lady's slipper (Crypripedium fasciculatum). Credit: Russ Holmes. |
 | Medium shot of Lady Slipper. Credit: John Craig. |  | Close up shot of Lady Slipper. Credit: John Craig. |
 | Botanical drawing of lady's slipper, genus Cypripedium. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kaiser Wilhelm spanking Prussian (crown prince) with his slipper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Each foot as she stands shows the daintiest slipper ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | John C. Fisher's stupendous musical production, The silver slipper by Owen Hall & Leslie Stuart, authors of Florodora. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Lady Slipper" by Hank Furnbach Commentary: "The pink lady slipper. a protected flower. I found this one 50 feet outside of my back door." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
John Bunyan | If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Slipper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.69% of the time. "Slipper" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.69% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.31% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 121 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "slipper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Slipper | Last name | 100 | 78,028 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "slipper": ballet slipper ♦ bedroom slipper ♦ California lady's slipper ♦ carpet slipper ♦ clustered lady's slipper ♦ felt slipper ♦ ladies' slipper ♦ lady's slipper ♦ large yellow lady's slipper ♦ mountain lady's slipper ♦ showy lady slipper ♦ slipper animalcule ♦ slipper brake ♦ slipper flower ♦ slipper limpet ♦ slipper orchid ♦ slipper plant ♦ slipper satin ♦ slipper shell ♦ slipper spurge ♦ slipper tank ♦ Venus' slipper ♦ Venus's slipper ♦ yellow lady's slipper. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "slipper": slipper-fight, slipper-finding, slipper-like. | |
Ending with "slipper": carpet-slipper, common lady's-slipper, fairy-slipper, hunt-the-slipper, lady-slipper, showy lady's-slipper, yellow lady-slipper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
slipper | 1,060 | isotoner slipper | 42 |
man slipper | 297 | ladys slipper | 41 |
lady slipper | 220 | animal slipper | 34 |
ballet slipper | 205 | acorn slipper | 31 |
glass slipper | 156 | slipper spanking | 31 |
sheep skin slipper | 120 | spa slipper | 31 |
womens slipper | 110 | silver slipper | 30 |
ruby slipper | 100 | bridal slipper | 29 |
bedroom slipper | 94 | cinderella glass slipper | 29 |
satin slipper | 67 | leather slipper | 28 |
lady slipper flower | 66 | ballerina slipper | 28 |
child slipper | 64 | ruby red slipper | 28 |
chinese slipper | 62 | lady slipper orchid | 28 |
bunny slipper | 57 | man leather slipper | 27 |
daniel green slipper | 52 | saloon silver slipper | 27 |
house slipper | 49 | dearfoam slipper | 25 |
wedding slipper | 47 | ballet slipper fetish | 24 |
slipper sock | 46 | cinderella slipper | 24 |
fuzzy slipper | 44 | slipper toddler | 24 |
kid slipper | 43 | marabou slipper | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "slipper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sheshël, pantofël, heqël. (various references) | |
Arabic | خف (fluff, footwear, pump, sandal), شبشب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чехъл (mule, scuff), челюст (chap, chop, jaw, jowl, shoe), кръстоглав, пантоф (mule), плъзгач (crosshead, ram, runner, slide, slide block). (various references) | |
Catalan | sabatilla. (various references) | |
Chinese | 舄 (shoe), 拖鞋. (various references) | |
Czech | trepka, pantofel (mule). (various references) | |
Danish | tøffel. (various references) | |
Dutch | pantoffel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pantoflo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tufla. (various references) | |
Farsi | کفش راحتی (Sandal), لیز (Glib, Slab, Slick, Slimy, Slippery), لغزنده (Rattletrap, Slide, Slipover, Slippery), تاشو (Jackknife, Limber, Lissome, Pliant). (various references) | |
Finnish | tohveli, ristikappale (adapter, spider), liukukappale (crank block, driving block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block), jarrutönkkä (block, chock, chock block). (various references) | |
French | pantoufle, mule. (various references) | |
German | Pantoffel (clog, mule), Hausschuh (bedroom slipper), Latschen (hoof it, old shoe, shamble, slouch, slouch along, traipse, wander, worn-out shoe). (various references) | |
Greek | παντόφλα (mule). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דרדס (sandal), נעל בית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | papucs (scuff, slippers), házicipõ. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gamparan (flapping slipper, slap, stroke, wooden clog). (various references) | |
Italian | pantofola, ciabatta (mule). (various references) | |
Korean | 슬리퍼 (scuff, sleeper). (various references) | |
Manx | skyrraghtagh (glancing, glancing as blow, slider, slippery, slitter). (various references) | |
Papiamen | slòf. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipperslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pantufa (Albert tab slipper), chinelo, chinela (mule). (various references) | |
Romanian | talpã (base, basis, hob, runner, shoe, sole), papuc (carpet slipper, pantofle). (various references) | |
Russian | туфля (low shoe, shoe, shoes), тапочка, шлепанец, домашняя туфля (scuff). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | papučica, papuča (footboard, shoe), osoba koja se oklizne, ogrtač (cape, cloak, cope, frock, mantle, overall, overcoat, wrap). (various references) | |
Sicilian | ciabbatta. (various references) | |
Spanish | zapatilla (bedroom slipper), pantufla (Albert tab slipper). (various references) | |
Swedish | toffel (mule). (various references) | |
Turkish | terlikle dövmek, terlik (mule), tekerlek çarığı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | повзун, пантофля. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dép lê, dép đi trong nhà. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sandalia, sandaliis, soccho. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slipper": slippered, slipperier, slipperiest, slipperiness, slipperinesses, slippers, slippery. (additional references) | |
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"Slipper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blipper, Lippert, scipper, slappe, sliper, slippier, stipper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slipper" (pronounced sli"per) |
| 4 | -l i" p er | clipper, flipper, Lipper. |
| 3 | -i" p er | chipper, dipper, gipper, Hipper, kipper, nipper, ripper, shipper, skipper, stripper, Tipper, tripper, zipper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lippers, ripples. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: lipper, lisper, perils, pipers, pliers, ripple, sipper. | |
-2 letters: liers, peril, peris, perps, piers, piles, piper, pipes, plier, plies, preps, pries, prise, repps, riels, riles, ripes, slier, slipe, speil, speir, spiel, spier, spile, spire. | |
-3 letters: ires, isle, leis, lier, lies, lipe, lips, lire, lisp, peps, peri, perp, pier, pies, pile, pipe, pips, plie, prep. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: appliers, clippers, cripples, flippers, presplit, ripplers, ripplets, slippers, slippery, slippier, sloppier, stippler, supplier, tipplers. | |
+2 letters: cripplers, liripipes, oilpapers, periplast, prolepsis, reapplies, rippliest, slippered, stipplers, suppliers. | |
+3 letters: dipperfuls, leptospire, papergirls, perilymphs, periplasts, pimpernels, piperonals, polyparies, popularise, principles, propolises, propulsive, resupplied, resupplies, slipperier, strippable. | |
+4 letters: hyperplasia, hyperploids, leptospiral, leptospires, overslipped, paraplegias, paraplegics, participles, peripherals, philosopher, planisphere, polariscope, popularised, popularises, popularizes, purposively, reappraisal, resupplying, semipopular, slaphappier, slipperiest, spermophile, superpolite. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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