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slipshoes

slipshoes is the plural of slipshoe.

Meaning of slipshoe

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...

Questions about slipshoes

What is slipshoes the plural of?
Slipshoes is the plural of slipshoe.

Words near slipshoes in the dictionary

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

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