Slippy

Definition: Slippy

Slippy

Adjective

1. Being such as to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slippy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Note: Slippy \Slip"py\, adjective. [from Anglo-Saxon expression slipeg.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Slippy

Danger

At stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread; Verb: with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood.

Crosswords: Slippy

Slippy McGee (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Music

• Born Slippy (Remixes) [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Born Slippy Pt.1 [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

rrëshqitës (elusory, running, slide, sliding, slimy, slippery), i rrëshqitshëm (greasy, slippery, soapy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زلق (lubricate, lubricious, slick, slip, slippery, slither, sweep, unctuous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чевръст (alert, light footed, nimble, prompt, ready, smart, spry), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), безскрупулен (conscienceless, ruthless, sharp, slim, slippery, smart, unconscionable, unconscious, unscrupulous), плъзгав (greasy, slippery), деликатен (considerate, delicate, fastidious, fine, fragile, nice, pernickety, prickly, slender, slippery, soft, tender, thoughtful, ticklish). (various references)

French

glissant (slick, slide, sliding, slippery), casse-gueule. (various references)

German

schnell (apace, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurry, prompt, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rapids, smart, smartly, soon, spanking, speedily, speedy, swift, swiftly), flott (brisk, briskly, dashing, glamorous, glamourous, jauntily, lively, nifty, nippy, perky, punchy, quick, racy, saucy, smart, smartly, snazzily, snazzy, speedy, sporty, Spruce, sprucely, swift, swiftly, vigorous, zippy), flink (adroit, agile, alert, brisk, briskly, deft, keen, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, rapid, smart, swift, swiftly, zippy). (various references)

Greek 

γλιστερόσ (slippery). (various references)

Hungarian

síkos (glib, greasy, slippery). (various references)

Italian

agile (agile, dexterous, dextrous, fleet, lean, light, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, quick, supple). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippyslay

Portuguese

traiçoeiro (base-minded, cattish, deceitful, double-hearted, insidious, slippery, snaky, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, vulpine), pérfido (diplomatic, insidious, slippery, traitorous, treacherous, treasonous), movediço (slippery, wandering), instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratic, fickle, kid-glove, labile, lubricous, mobile, mutable, off-balance, slippery, temperamental, ticklish, tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), escorregadio (lubricous, slick, slippery), escorregadiço (slippery). (various references)

Russian 

скользкий (greasy, slippery, slithery), быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, smart, snappy, spanking, speedy, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ljigav (lubricous, saponaceous, slimy, slippery), klizav (glib, lubricous, slick, sliding, slippery). (various references)

Spanish

de prisa (early, fast, hastily, quickly, swiftly). (various references)

Swedish

kvick (quick, salty, smart, swift, witty). (various references)

Turkish

kaygan (greasy, lubricious, lubricous, slick, slippery, slithery), kayıcı (slithery), aceleci (brash, hasty, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, hustler, impatient, impetuous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash), çabucak (apace, at no time, by leaps and bounds, double quick, fast, hand over fist, in a snap, in no time, in short order, lickety-split, nimbly, posthaste, quick, quickly, readily, slick, speedily, swiftly, with a rush). (various references)

Ukrainian

слизький (eely, lubricious, slick, slippery), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lippy.

-2 letters: lips, lisp, pily, pips, pipy, slip, syli, yips.

-3 letters: lip, lis, pip, pis, ply, psi, sip, sly, spy, yip.

-4 letters: is, li, pi, si.

+1 letter: sappily.

+2 letters: epilepsy, misapply, popishly, slippery, sloppily, snappily, snippily, uppishly.

+3 letters: foppishly, isopropyl, polypides, scrappily, supplying.

+4 letters: appositely, epiphyseal, epiphysial, gypsophila, hypoplasia, hypoploids, isopropyls, oppositely, perilymphs, philosophy, polydipsia, polydipsic, polyparies, polyphasic, polyploids, polypodies, psilophyte, snappishly.

+5 letters: episcopally, gypsophilas, hyperplasia, hyperploids, hypophysial, hypoplasias, hypoplastic, misapplying, polydipsias, polyphagias, polyphagies, polyphonies, prophylaxis, psilophytes, psilophytic, purposively, resupplying, suppliantly.

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