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slopwork

slopwork noun: the manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).

Noun

slopwork (usually uncountable, plural slopworks)

  1. (archaic, usually) The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
  2. (archaic, usually) Clothing of this kind.
  3. (archaic, figuratively, usually) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
    • [Thomas] Carlyle continued as busy as ever at what he called 'the despicable craft of reviewing,' but doing his very best with it. No slop-work ever dropped from his pen.1882, James Anthony Froude, “A.D. 1829. Æt. 34.”, in Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 52
    • This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time

Forms of slopwork

pluralslopworks
alternative formslop-work
alternative formslop work

Origin of slopwork

From slop + work.

Questions about slopwork

What does slopwork mean?
Slopwork means the manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
What part of speech is slopwork?
Slopwork is a noun.
What is the plural of slopwork?
The plural of slopwork is slopworks.

Words near slopwork in the dictionary

  1. SlopTuber
  2. SlopTubers
  3. slopulism
  4. slopulist
  5. slopulists
  6. slopwork
  7. slopworker
  8. slopworkers
  9. slopworks
  10. slopy
  11. Slora

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