# slipper
## English
### Etymology

From slip +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, General Australian) IPA: /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Queensland):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈslɪpəɹ/, [ˈslɪpɚ]
** Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)

### Noun

slipper (plural slippers)
* A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
    Synonyms: babouche, pantofle
    Hyponym: chinela
    Coordinate terms: flip-flop, sandal
* (footwear) Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
    Coordinate term: bootee
    Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
* (US, Hawaii, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
    Synonyms: flip-flop, sandal, thong
* A person or creature that slips.
** 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, page 130:He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
** 1995, Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:
    Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.
** 2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 7:Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
** 2020, Dagulf Loptson, Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer:He was grey and had eight legs, and could travel anywhere and slip into any corner of 9 worlds. For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.
* A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
* A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
* (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
* A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
** 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
    "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "
* (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
** 2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research:"All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."
* (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.

#### Coordinate terms

* calceolate (slipper-shaped)

#### Derived terms

* ballet slipper
* carpet slipper
* harem slipper
* house-slipper
* house slipper
* hunt the slipper
* Japanese slipper
* Kentucky lady's slipper
* lady slipper
* lady's slipper
* pink lady's slipper
* pipe-and-slipper
* ruby slipper
* slipper animalcule
* slipper chair
* slipper flower
* slipper gourd
* slipper limpet
* slipper lobster
* slipper-orchid
* slipper orchid
* slipper satin
* slipper sock
* slipper spoon
* slipperwort
* Southern lady's slipper
* toilet slipper
* yellow lady's slipper

#### Descendants

* Malay: selipar

#### Further reading

* slipper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Adjective

slipper (comparative more slipper, superlative most slipper)
* (obsolete) slippery
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.

### Verb

slipper (third-person singular simple present slippers, present participle slippering, simple past and past participle slippered)
* (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
** 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
    "One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."

### Anagrams

* Rippels, Ripples, ripples

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English slipper.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈslɪ.pər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: slip‧per
* Rhymes: -ɪpər

### Noun

slipper m (plural slippers, diminutive slippertje n)
* slipper
    Synonyms: slof, pantoffel
* slide (rubber shoe with open heel and open toes)

#### Derived terms

* badslipper
* teenslipper

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

slipper
* present of slippe

## Swedish
### Verb

slipper
* present indicative of slippa

## Yola
### Etymology

Cognate with English slipper (“A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈslɪpər/

### Noun

slipper
* The stick for receiving the spun thread off the spindle of the woollen wheel.

### References

* Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎, volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135