overslip
overslip verb: to slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
Verb
overslip (third-person singular simple present overslips, present participle overslipping, simple past and past participle overslipped)
- To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
- To omit or neglect, to fail to mention.
- to overslip time or opportunity
- Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6
Noun
overslip (plural overslips)
- A kind of light overgarment, easily slipped on.
- An oversight, a mistake or neglect.
Forms of overslip
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overslips |
| present participle | overslipping |
| past participle | overslipped |
| past | overslipped |
| Noun | |
| plural | overslips |
Origin of overslip
From over- + slip.
Questions about overslip
- What does overslip mean?
- Overslip means to slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
- What part of speech is overslip?
- Overslip can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of overslip?
- The past tense of overslip is overslipped.
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