Sloppy

Definition: Sloppy

Sloppy

Adjective

1. Lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits".

2. Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship".

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

Date "sloppy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Note: Sloppy \Slop"py\, adjective. [Comparative Sloppier; superlative Sloppiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Sloppy

Marsh

Adjective: marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny.

Moisture

Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous.

Crosswords: Sloppy

Life goes on, even for those of us who are divorced, broke, and sloppy. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon)

In New York City a sloppy job runs you five hundred (Stingray; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston)

The Multiverse, every universe in it, is irrational, sloppy. I try to make it rational (The One; writing credit: Glen Morgan; James Wong)

Well sloppy seconds ain't my style (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey)

The wedding's off, sloppy and immature (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead ("White Rabbit"; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

Sloppy Jalopy (1952)

Super Sloppy Double Dare (1987)

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

Books

• Girl in a Sloppy Joe Sweater (reference)

• Odd Couple Syndrome: Revolving the Neat Sloppy Dilemma (reference)

• Sloppy Firsts (reference)

• Sloppy Joe's : the tradition continues (reference)

• The Seven Sloppy Days of Phineas Pig (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tough Beauty & The Sloppy Slop (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sloppy Seconds (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Sloppy Joe's Bar, Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Expressions using "sloppy": be sloppy ♦ sloppy job ♦ sloppy joe ♦ sloppy person ♦ sloppy work. Additional references.

Ending with "sloppy": still-sloppy.

Albanian

me lagështi (humid, moist, sticky, wet), i spërkatur (bedewed, besprent), i lerosur (scruffy), i lagësht (damp, dank, humid, moist, sour, squashy, steamy, wet), i lëngshëm (fluid, liquid, runny, serous, succulent, wishy washy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متسخ بالسوائل, ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏غير محدد (iffy, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, undefined), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏طافح (brimful, chock full, overflowing, replete), ‏ضبابي (foggy, fuzziness, hazy, misty, nebulous, vaporous), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), ‏شديد الليونة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сладникаво сантиментален (gooey, mawkish, milk and water), като помия (wishy washy), кален (feculent, miry, muddy, slimy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, sticky, tempered, thick), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), покрит с локви (puddly). (various references)

Chinese 

散漫 (Discursive). (various references)

Czech

sentimentální (gushing, maudlin, mushy, sentimental, soppy), vágní (dim, hazy, impressionistic, lax, vague), neupravený (blowzy, dowdy, mussy, undressed, unkempt, untidy, wild), nedbalý (careless, casual, lax, neglectful, negligent, offhand, remiss, slack, slovenly, unmindful), lajdácký (slipshod, slovenly). (various references)

Danish

klæbrig gødning (sloppy manure). (various references)

Dutch

zweefstang (sloppy link), kleverige stalmest (sloppy manure), kiesstang (sloppy link). (various references)

Farsi 

نامرتب (Disheveled, Irregular, Slovenly, Unequal, Unkempt, Untidy), کثیف (Amiss, Dirty, Draggy, Grimy, Impure, Lousy, Messy, Mussy, Nasty, Sordid, Squawk), شلخته (Blowzy, Slipshod, Slovenly, Sordid), درهم وبرهم (Desultory, Imbroglio, Turbid, Unorganized, Untidy, Woebegone). (various references)

Finnish

vetelä (floppy, indolent, slack, thin), huolimaton (careless, heedless, negligent, slapdash, slipshod, slovenly), epäsiisti (bedraggled, dirty, slovenly, untidy). (various references)

French

sentimental, vague, trop liquide, peu soigné, négligé (slipshod, slovenly), imprécis, détrempé (slushy), débraillé (slipshod), débordant. (various references)

German

schlampig (bedraggled, blowzy, careless, draggled, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, grumblingly, slack, slatternly, sleazily, slipshod, slovenly, untidy). (various references)

Greek 

λασπώδησ (loamy, miry, muddy, plashy, sloshy, sloughy, slushy, splashy), ακάθαρτοσ (filthy, foul, grubby, impure, slaggy, slimy, slob, unclean, verminous), ακατάστατοσ (blowzy, disorderly, frowsy, frowzy, messy, mussy, slatternly, slob, slovenly, unsettled, untidy), τσαπατσούλησ, τσαπατσούλης. (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכלך ורטוב, משתפך (gushing), מטו� ף (dungy, filthy, grubby, mucky, nasty, slimy, slob, soiled, sordid, squalid), מרושל (careless, frowzy, negligent, perfunctory, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slob, slovenly, unkempt), ל�"יות ר�'ש� י. (various references)

Hungarian

lucskos (clam, draggled, sodden), nedves (clammy, dank, humid, lush, moist, oozing, oozy, sammy, soggy, steamy, wet), érzelgős (corny, gooey, gushy, lyrical, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, sentimental, sickly, slushy, to slobber over sy, twee), ömlengő (effusive, expansive, gusher, gushy, mawkish), csúszós (glib, greasy, slippery), csatakos, felázott (poachy, sodden, soggy), iszapos (dirty, muddy, oozy, silty, slimy, slobby, sludgy, turbid), lötyögő (floppy, loose, slack), latyakos (slobby, slushy, splashy), áradozó (effusive, exuberant, gushy), lottyadt, túl nagy (on the large side), nem alapos, nem az alakjára való, nyálas (dribbler), petyhüdt (drooping, droopy, flabby, flaccid, floppy, lax, limp), puha (downy, feathery, flossy, limp, mellow, mushy, slack, smooth, soft, spongy, tender), sáros (dirty, mired, miry, muddy, oozy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, to be hot), szentimentális (maudlin, namby-pamby, sentimental, sickly), túl bő, laza (accommodating, easy, flimsy, flipperty-flopperty, floppy, incompact, lax, loose, open, running, slack, sleazy). (various references)

Italian

sciatto (blowzy, careless, dowdy, frowzy, pig, shabby, sleazily, slipshod, slovenly, unkempt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

杜�'� (careless, faulty), ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずさ�" (birth, careless, faulty), ぐちゃぐちゃ (pulpy, soppy). (various references)

Korean 

단� �치 못한 (slovenly). (various references)

Manx

lheaumagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

oppyslay.(various references)

Portuguese

salpicado de líquido, pouco consistente (pasteboard), molhado e sujo, lamacento (miry, muddy, mushy, oozy, poachy, puddly, quaggy, sludgy, slushy, squashy), desleixado (careless, floppy, forgetful, frumpish, incurious, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slatternly, slipshod, slouch, slovenly, uncared-for, untidy), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary), cheio de lama (miry), aguado (dilute, washy, weak, wishy-washy). (various references)

Romanian

noroios (slimy, splashy), neîngrijit (dowdy, frowzy, grubby, poky, shabby, slattern, unkempt, untidy, weed-grown), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), mlãştinos (boggy, Fenny, marshy, paludal, quaggy, swampy), desfundat (bottomless), de un sentimentalism ieftin, bleg (blockhead, dolt, drooping, flabby, flaccid, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, silly, skulker, sluggish, timid, weak, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

слякотный (muddy, sleety, slushy), грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious), неаккуратный (disorderly, ragged, untidy), небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, lax, loose, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, unheeding, unkempt), мокрый (madid, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, watery, wet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

traljav (shabby), neuredan (disorderly, disorganized, frowsy, frowzy, inordinate, littery, slovenly, untidy), nemaran (careless, casual, debonair, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod), aljkav (blowzy, dowdy, grubby, littery, slatternly, slipshod, slipslop, slovenly, unkempt). (various references)

Spanish

sentimental (emotional, nambypamby, novelettish, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, sob, soulful), poco sólido (shaky), poco riguroso, mojado (damp, damped, dampish, moist, slobbery, soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping, souse, watery, wet), lleno de charcos (puddly), estrafalario (bizarre, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, incongruous, odd, outlandish, screwball, slovenly, tacky, wack, wild, zany), enlodado, desaseado (scraggly, scruff, slatternly, sleazily, sleazy, slipshod, tatty, uncared for, untidy). (various references)

Swedish

slaskig. (various references)

Thai

ยุ่งเหยิง (foul, higgledy-piggledy, jumble, muddy, ravel, ruffled, tangle), ซึ่งเป็นโคลนเลน. (various references)

Turkish

sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, sassy, saucily, saucy, slushy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, washy, watery, weak, wet), yarımyamalak (glib, superficial), pasaklı (dowdy, dowdyish, draggled, frowzy, gay, messy, out of trim, ratty, slatternly, slipshod, sloven, slovenly, untidy), gülünç derecede hassas (slab), cıvık (juicy, runny, saucy, soft), çamurlu (miry, muddy, plashy, slimy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, turbid, uliginose), ıslak (damp, dank, liquid, moist, slobbery, soppy, splashy, sticky, tacky, watery, wet). (various references)

Turkmen 

sowuk-sala, sцlpi (absent-minded), gьmьrtik (unconsidered). (various references)

Ukrainian

водянистий (aqueous, aquose, milk and water, soupy, washy, waterish, watery, wishy washy), мокрий (soppy, watery, weepy, wet), забризканий (bedraggled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sướt mướt (corny, lachrymose, mawkish, misty-eyed, mushy), luộm thuộm, lõng bõng, ướt át (dank, soppy, splashy, wet), đầy nước. (various references)

Misspellings

"Sloppy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leoppky, ploppy, shoppie, slappy, slipy, slooppy, sloopy, slopp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: polyps.

-1 letter: loppy, plops, ploys, polyp, polys, popsy, soppy.

-2 letters: lops, plop, ploy, pols, poly, pops, posy, slop.

-3 letters: lop, ops, ply, pol, pop, sly, sol, sop, soy, spy.

-4 letters: lo, op, os, oy, so, yo.

+1 letter: polypus, propyls.

+2 letters: polypods, polypous, popishly, sloppily.

+3 letters: foppishly, isopropyl, lollypops, polyphase, polypides, polypneas, polypores, polypuses, polytypes, pompously, purposely.

+4 letters: apocalypse, apophyseal, appositely, gypsophila, haplotypes, hypoplasia, hypoploids, isopropyls, oppositely, oversupply, pelecypods, philosophy, phosphoryl, photoplays, polydipsia, polydipsic, polygraphs, polymorphs, polyparies, polyphasic, polyphones, polyploids, polypodies, polyptychs, populously, propylenes, psephology, psilophyte, sporophyll, suppletory, supposably, supposedly.

+5 letters: apocalypses, episcopally, gypsophilas, hyperploids, hypophyseal, hypophysial, hypoplasias, hypoplastic, laparoscopy, nympholepsy, nympholepts, petroglyphs, phosphoryls, polydipsias, polyphagias, polyphagies, polyphagous, polyphenols, polyphonies, polyphonous, prophylaxes, prophylaxis, psilophytes, psilophytic, purposively, sporophylls, unstoppably.