slipslop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipslops
Etymology: From slip + slop.
Senses: examples: text: ... 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 continue unremakred, harden into habits, and fix, indelibly fix, the vernacular errors of infancy upon the minds of maturity.
ref: 1810, The European Magazine and London Review containing portraits, views, biography, anecdotes, literature, history, politics, arts, manners, and amusements of the age. volume 58:
text: It is an average specimen of the slipslop and real ignorance generally existing upon the subject.
ref: 1843, P. Polypipe, “Music for the Billion!”, in The New monthly magazine:
text: The slipslop which Roman priests, and even the most dignified among the number, are not ashamed to send forth to the world, is something quite inconceivable to those, at least, who have not been nurtured on diet of this kind.
ref: 1854, George Jacob Holyoake, The Reasoner - Volume 16, page 56:
text: The slipslop which Sir Edward put into the mouth of Mrs. Mivers, the gibberish in which Beck gabbles, may, for all that we know, be totally unlike the language of the back-parlour and of the crossing; and while that doubt continues, the imitation gives us no pleasure.
ref: 1855, The North British Review - Volumes 23-24, page 201:
text: "So, the modern clergyman still believes in slipslop, does he?" he exclaimed in his most aggressive manner.
ref: 1911, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 686:
glosses: Nonsense; gibberish; twaddle.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1849, C Pridham, An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Mauritius and its Dependencies:
text: 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 technical faults.
ref: 1863, The Living Age - Volume 77, page 101:
text: Plant him in Boston, and his sheet he fills With all the slipslop of his threefold hills, Talks as if Nature kept her choicest smiles Within his radius of a dozen miles, And nations waited till his next Review Had made it plain what Providence must do.
ref: 1895, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, page 336:
text: Nathaniel Hawthorne is, for one, reported to have called him "a dealer in slipslop on many subjects."
ref: 1978, V Haviland, Books for America's children: 1776–1976:
glosses: Poor writing; text that is imprecise, weak, or overly informal.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1831, WJ Neale, Cavendish, Or, The Patrician at Sea:
text: 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.
ref: 1994, T Merton, R Lax, A Catch of Anti-letters:
text: You wanted no one. I am the slipslop you called for.
ref: 2011, I.B. Wingfield, Sunday in the Body of the Garden of Tyme, →ISBN:
glosses: A quantity of worthless things; mess.
examples: text: They vvere fed very poorly. Once a day they vvould get some slipslop.
ref: 2003, Rima Dulkinienė, Kerry Shawn Keys, With a needle in the heart:
text: 'Twas tea time by then, and I fancied a drop Of champagne or cognac—or any slipslop.
ref: 2005, Charles Harrington Elster, There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, →ISBN:
text: In your days of leisure, swallow cakes made of broken rice, or cook “slipslop congee”, and hold the bowl between your two hands and eat it with shrugged shoulders.
ref: 2007, Jin Jia, A Brief Review on How Chinese and Western Catering Cultural Differences Influence the Translation of Chinese Cuisine (B.A. Thesis, Jiaxing University, Zhejiang Province, P.R.C.):
glosses: Watery food or drink that is of inferior quality.
examples: text: The thought drove him forward the more quickly : he paddled strongly with alternate feet and was soon billowing through a regular slipslop of wavelets.
ref: 1949, William Kenneth Richmond, Saga of Swans: And, Harrier Over the Fen, page 7:
text: Only then did she hear the slipslop of a familiar footstep coming in through the gate.
ref: 1958, Chinese Literature, page 86:
text: The rumble of machinery is replaced by the slipslop of the sea against the hull and the splutterings of the VHF.
ref: 2005, Bella Bathurst, The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships:
text: Cindy is beside him suddenly, breathing in rhythm with the slipslop of the sea.
ref: 2006, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich, →ISBN:
glosses: A splashing, sloshing, or slapping sound.