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slipslop

slipslop noun: nonsense; gibberish; twaddle.

Noun

slipslop (countable and uncountable, plural slipslops)

  1. Nonsense; gibberish; twaddle.
    • ... they, consequently, both misconceive and misuse words ; and we are sorry to add, that this childish slipslop, those infantile blunders, is, and are, much more frequently a source of parental mirth, than of parental reprehension : yet it is certain, that such oral deviations, if suffered to...1810, The European Magazine and London Review containing portraits, views, biography, anecdotes, literature, history, politics, arts, manners, and amusements of the age. volume 58
    • It is an average specimen of the slipslop and real ignorance generally existing upon the subject.1843, P. Polypipe, “Music for the Billion!”, in The New monthly magazine
  2. Poor writing; text that is imprecise, weak, or overly informal.
    • Imaginary woes, and sentimental slipslop find no responsive chord; but to the historian, the statist, and the geographer, and those who unveil the mysteries of the physical sciences, the field is ever open.1849, C Pridham, An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Mauritius and its Dependencies
    • No detatched evidence of the slipslop of Mrs. Wood's style (and " East Lynne " was in this respect worse, not better, than " Verner's Pride ") will convey to one who has not read the book itself the impression of ill-written English that every page of her writing gives, even when it contains no...1863, The Living Age - Volume 77, page 101
  3. A quantity of worthless things; mess.
    • This story slips for ever through my fingers. I'm very sorry, but I cannot help it; going to sea has given me such a turn for rambling ; besides, I cannot spare the room for all my slipslop.1831, WJ Neale, Cavendish, Or, The Patrician at Sea
    • Here in our smashing madcap twenty century country all is slipslop and upshot, coming out with moons and planets, down with awful swats at the poors and the darkened. Truly a madcap slipslop, you do well to avoid and to desist from thought of return.1994, T Merton, R Lax, A Catch of Anti-letters
  4. Watery food or drink that is of inferior quality.
    • They vvere fed very poorly. Once a day they vvould get some slipslop.2003, Rima Dulkinienė, Kerry Shawn Keys, With a needle in the heart
    • 'Twas tea time by then, and I fancied a drop Of champagne or cognac—or any slipslop.2005, Charles Harrington Elster, There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, →ISBN
  5. A splashing, sloshing, or slapping sound.
    • The thought drove him forward the more quickly : he paddled strongly with alternate feet and was soon billowing through a regular slipslop of wavelets.1949, William Kenneth Richmond, Saga of Swans: And, Harrier Over the Fen, page 7
    • Only then did she hear the slipslop of a familiar footstep coming in through the gate.1958, Chinese Literature, page 86

Adjective

slipslop (comparative more slipslop, superlative most slipslop)

  1. Slipshod; loose and imprecise.
    • But with how little benefit, the slipslop spelling of proper names and technical terms in official correspondence, and the barbarous names which crowd the face of the best Indian maps, bear witness?1859, Report of the Sub-committee of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society on Writing Indian Words in Roman Characters
    • It is difficult to ascertain the course of the transaction from the slipslop phrases in which Mr. Gladstone as usual makes the Queen adopt the style of a. literary housemaid; but 'it may be collected that the audacious encroachments of General Butler's contituents and other American fishermen in...1871, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
  2. Tending to flop or slide about.
    • All the time this conversation had been going on, we had been scudding along at as brisk a pace as Mouldy's slipslop boots would permit, up the Old Bailey and by Newgate, (where my companions having inquired whether I knew at which door they brought people out to hang 'em, and received from me an...1866, James Greenwood, The True History of a Little Ragamuffin, →ISBN, page 44
    • It dawned on me, in a flash of insight, that slipslop dresses were just a temporary fad and that state of mind was more important than costume ...1991 -, Doris Read, The Lydia chronicles, →ISBN, page 109

Verb

slipslop (third-person singular simple present slipslops, present participle slipslopping, simple past and past participle slipslopped)

  1. To move with a slapping or flopping action.
    • Both Ivor and Philip were cowed by this royal anger and they were silent for some time after she had slipslopped in her carpet slippers down the passage, muttering fiercely as she went.1950, Percy Howard Newby, The young May moon, page 128
    • One man punts ferociously at the front, his companion steers languidly from the back, and together they maneuver their craft, its load barely clear of the water, to catch the breeze in a tattered sail as they slipslop their way across.2000, Edward Stourton, Absolute Truth: The Struggle for Meaning in Today's Catholic Church, →ISBN
  2. To slide about like waves.
    • Below, among dark mysteries of the under-wharf, the water placidly slipslopped; the sea-wind blew gently in, fluffing a lock of hair across my face.1920, Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 99, page 213
    • They slipslopped and spilled over, some of their contents trickling back into the room, under the warped edge of the door.1938, Emerson Waldman -, The Land is Large, page 109

Examples of slipslop in a sentence

  • The slipslop which Sir Edward put into the mouth of Mrs.1855, The North British Review - Volumes 23-24, page 201:
  • "So, the modern clergyman still believes in slipslop, does he?" he exclaimed in his most aggressive manner.1911, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 686:
  • No detatched evidence of the slipslop of Mrs.1863, The Living Age - Volume 77, page 101:
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne is, for one, reported to have called him "a dealer in slipslop on many subjects."1978, V Haviland, Books for America's children: 1776–1976:

Forms of slipslop

Noun
pluralslipslops
Adjective
comparativemore slipslop
superlativemost slipslop
Verb
third-person singular presentslipslops
present participleslipslopping
past participleslipslopped
pastslipslopped

Origin of slipslop

From slip + slop.

Questions about slipslop

What does slipslop mean?
Slipslop means nonsense; gibberish; twaddle.
How do you use slipslop in a sentence?
The slipslop which Sir Edward put into the mouth of Mrs.
What part of speech is slipslop?
Slipslop can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
What is the plural of slipslop?
The plural of slipslop is slipslops.

Words near slipslop in the dictionary

  1. slipshodness
  2. slipshoe
  3. slipshoes
  4. slipskin
  5. slipskins
  6. slipslop
  7. slipslopped
  8. slipslopping
  9. slipslops
  10. slipsole
  11. slipsoles

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