slipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈslɪpəɹ/
ipa: [ˈslɪpɚ]
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slippers
Etymology: From Middle English slypper, equivalent to slip + -er.
Senses: synonyms: pantofle
coordinate_terms: flip-flop
sandal
qualifier: footwear
glosses: A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
examples: text: Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
coordinate_terms: bootee
qualifier: footwear
glosses: A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.
synonyms: flip-flop
sandal
thong
qualifier: footwear
glosses: A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
examples: text: He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
ref: 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, page 130:
text: 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.
ref: 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, page 3
text: Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
ref: 2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 7:
text: 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.
ref: 2020, Dagulf Loptson, Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer:
glosses: A person or creature that slips.
glosses: A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
glosses: A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
examples: 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. "
glosses: A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
examples: text: "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."
ref: 2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research:
glosses: The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
Coordinate terms: english: slipper-shaped
translation: slipper-shaped
word: calceolate
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
opera 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