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Definition: SLIPSLOP |
SLIPSLOPNoun1. Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing. |
Date "SLIPSLOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Note: Slipslop \Slip"slop`\, noun. [A reduplication of slop.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Slipslop A ricochet word meaning wishy-washy. (Anglo-Saxon, slip-an, to melt, which makes slopen in the past participle.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism. |
Feebleness | Careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent); slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling; (diffuse). |
Solecism | Noun: solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLIPSLOP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shprilëng (slipsole). (various references) | |
Arabic | لغو (chat, chatter, chitchat, crack, logorrhea, loquacity, moonshine, palaver, small talk, tittle tattle, twitter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слабо питие (lap), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), помия (dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pigwash, rinsings, slops, swill, wash, wish-wash), плещене (gammon, twaddle, yap). (various references) | |
Czech | brynda (hole, mess, slops, wish-wash), šlichta (mash, mush, slops, swill). (various references) | |
French | lavasse, bêtise. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szirupos (mushy, syrupy, treacly), lötty (dishwater, lap, slop, swill, ullage, water bewitched, wishy washy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipslopslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mixórdia (mash, medley, patchwork), lavagem (ablution, rinse, rinsing, wash, washout, washup, wish-wash), conversa (causerie, chat, chitchat, consultation, conversation, converse, discourse, gab, gabble, reasoning, talk, trifling), bebida aguada, baboseira (piffle, slush), água chilra. (various references) | |
Russian | слабый напиток, вздорный (quarrelsome, rubbishy, ugly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vodnjikavo piće, budalaština (antic, flapdoodle, fudge, silliness, tomfoolery), aljkav (blowzy, dowdy, grubby, littery, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt). (various references) | |
Spanish | brebaje (potion). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | марнослів'я (vacuity), бурда (balderdash, cat-lap, wash, wish-wash), пійло (cat-lap, draff, sozzle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rượt nhạt chuyện tình cảm uỷ mị sướt mướt, canh lõng bõng nước rượu loãng, b i viết cẩu thả thức ăn có nước. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SLIPSLOP": slipslops. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-o-p-p-s-s" | |
-2 letters: spills, spoils. | |
-3 letters: lisps, pills, pisos, plops, polis, polls, sills, silos, slips, slops, soils, spill, spoil. | |
-4 letters: ills, lips, lisp, lops, loss, oils, pill, pips, piso, piss, plop, pois, poll, pols, pops, psis, sill, silo, sips, slip, slop, soil, soli, sols, sops. | |
-5 letters: ill, lip, lis, lop, oil, ops, pip, pis, poi, pol, pop. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-o-p-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: slipslops. | |
+2 letters: sopapillas. | |
+3 letters: sopaipillas. | |
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