slipper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English slypper, equivalent to slip + -er.
Base: slip
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: slippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slippers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slippering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slippered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slippered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
pos: noun
gloss: A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.
pos: noun
examples: Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
gloss: A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
India
Kenya
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
US
gloss: A person or creature that slips.
pos: noun
examples: He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
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.
Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
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.
gloss: A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
pos: noun
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. "
gloss: The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."
gloss: A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
pos: noun
gloss: To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: 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."
Derived words: ballet slipper
beslipper
carpet slipper
harem slipper
house slipper
house-slipper
hunt the slipper
Japanese slipper
Kentucky lady's slipper
ladyslipper
lady's slipper
lady slipper
opera slipper
pink lady's slipper
pipe-and-slipper
ruby slipper
slipper animalcule
slipper chair
slipperette
slipper flower
slipper gourd
slipperless
slipperlike
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
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