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slipshoe

slipshoe noun: a slipper.

Noun

slipshoe (plural slipshoes)

  1. (archaic) A slipper.
    • [S]uddenly out of his bed ſtarted an Hoſtler, who hauing no apparell on but his ſhirt, a paire of ſlip-ſhooes on his / feete, and a Candle burning in his hand like old Ieronimo ſtep'd into the ſtable amõgſt a number of poore hungry Iades, as if that night he had beene to ride poaſt to yͤ Diuell.1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Chapter XII”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of...

Forms of slipshoe

pluralslipshoes

Origin of slipshoe

From slip + shoe.

Questions about slipshoe

What does slipshoe mean?
Slipshoe means a slipper.
What part of speech is slipshoe?
Slipshoe is a noun.
What is the plural of slipshoe?
The plural of slipshoe is slipshoes.

Words near slipshoe in the dictionary

  1. slipshod
  2. slipshoddiness
  3. slipshoddy
  4. slipshodly
  5. slipshodness
  6. slipshoe
  7. slipshoes
  8. slipskin
  9. slipskins
  10. slipslop
  11. slipslopped

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