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English

Alternative forms

• skuttle

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?t?l/, [?sk?t??], [?sk?t??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?t?l/, [?sk????], [?sk????]
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel.

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:

     All through dinner—which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin—Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.

2. A broad, shallow basket.
3. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.

Usage notes

The sense of "dish, platter" survives in compounds like scuttle-dish (a large dish).

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic ???????????????????????? (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English s??at. More at sheet.

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
2. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.

Synonyms

• (hatch that provides access to the roof): roof hatch

Translations

Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

1. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
2. (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
   • 2002, Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy, Corinthian Books (2002), ?ISBN, page 325:

     In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.

   • 2003, Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955, Northwestern University Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 238:

     To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.

   • 2007, Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster, Naval Institute Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 17:

     He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.

   • 2009, Nancy Toppino, Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West, Insiders' Guide (2009), ?ISBN, page 227:

     In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.

3. (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.

   The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.

Translations

Etymology 3

See scuddle.

Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

1. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3

     there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8

     Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.

Usage notes

The word "scuttle" carries a crab-like connotation, and is mainly used to describe panic-like movements of the legs, akin to crabs' leg movements.

Translations

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A quick pace; a short run.

Further reading

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• An historical dictionary
• The English Dialect Dictionary
• Scuttle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• cutlets, cuttles

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?p, IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupan? (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewb?- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijan? (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”). Compare Old English sl?pan (“to slip, glide”), Old English c?slyppe, c?sloppe (“cowslip”).

Noun

slip (countable and uncountable, plural slips)

1. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
2. (obsolete) Mud, slime.

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe.

Noun

slip (plural slips)

1. A twig or shoot; a cutting.

2. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
3. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).

4. A long, thin piece of something.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone

     moonlit slips of silver cloud

5. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.

6. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Cognate to Dutch slippen, German schlüpfen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewb?- (“slip, slide”).

Verb

slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped or (obsolete) slipt)

1. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
2. (intransitive) To err.

   • There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.

3. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
4. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.

5. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.

6. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

7. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, Canto II

     Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.

   • Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift […]

8. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.

   Profits have slipped over the past six months.
9. (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
10. (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind; to sideslip.
11. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
12. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.

    • And slip no advantage / That may secure you.

13. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
    • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry

      The branches also may be slipped and planted.

14. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.

15. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
16. (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.

Translations

Noun

slip (plural slips)

1. An act or instance of slipping.

   I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.

2. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
3. A slipdress.
4. A mistake or error.

   a slip of the tongue

   • This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.

5. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
6. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
7. (nautical) A slipway.
8. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
9. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
10. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
11. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
    • 1852, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

      We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.

12. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.

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13. (aviation) Sideslip.
14. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
15. (dated) A child's pinafore.
16. An outside covering or case.

17. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.

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18. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

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19. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces together.
20. A particular quantity of yarn.
21. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
22. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
23. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.

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24. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
25. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
26. A fish, the sole.

Synonyms

• (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, stumble, thinko
• (return to previous behaviour): lapse

Translations

Derived terms

• (undergarment): full slip, waist slip

Related terms

References

• slip at OneLook Dictionary Search
• slip in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• LIPs, LISP, LSPI, Lisp, lips, lisp, pils

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Hyphenation: slip
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From English slip, probably via French slip. The English word may itself be derived from Middle Dutch slippen (etymology 3 and 4) below.

Noun

slip f (plural slips, diminutive slipje n)

1. A pair of briefs, a short type of underpants which covers the buttocks but nothing below
2. (by extension, for women) A pair of knickers, any female underpants

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch slippe, sleppe. Related with German Schlips (“necktie”).

Noun

slip f (plural slippen, diminutive slipje n)

1. tail, part of an upper garment hanging below the waist

Etymology 3

Deverbal from slippen (etymology 4).

Noun

slip m (uncountable)

1. skid, an act or instance of slipping.

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: slip

Etymology 4

Verb

slip

1. first-person singular present indicative of slippen
2. imperative of slippen

Anagrams

• pils

French

Etymology

From English to slip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slip/

Noun

slip m (plural slips)

1. briefs (men's underwear)

Derived terms

• slip de bain

Further reading

• “slip” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• plis

Indonesian

Etymology 1

• From Dutch slip, the deverbal of slippen. Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewb?- (“slip, slide”).
• Semantic loan from English slip (“small piece of paper”) for sense of small piece of paper, which came from above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slip]
• Hyphenation: slip

Noun

slip (first-person possessive slipku, second-person possessive slipmu, third-person possessive slipnya)

1. slip:
   1. an act or instance of slipping.

      Synonyms: tergelincir, selip

   2. small piece of paper.

Etymology 2

From English slip, from Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupan? (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewb?- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijan? (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slip]
• Hyphenation: slip

Noun

slip (first-person possessive slipku, second-person possessive slipmu, third-person possessive slipnya)

1. (archaeology, ceramics) slip: a thin, slippery mix of clay and water.

Further reading

• “slip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

slip m (invariable)

1. Men's or women's underwear (knickers, panties)
2. swimming trunks

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slip

1. imperative of slipe

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian, standard): slij?p

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sl?p?.

Adjective

slip (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) blind
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):

     Slipi jeste [luduju?i],

     vaše boge veruju?i

     kî nigdare vas ne sliše

     ni vas koga [kad] utiše.

   • late 15th century or early 16th century, Šiško Men?eti?, Ako ?eš, Stijepo moj, za mene što stvorit:

     Ter je prem sasma slip tko ne zri suna?ce

   • 1546, Petar Zorani?, Planine:

     To j' uzrok da travi tako slip bog ljubven,

     a ne kako pravi tkogod nenau?en.

   • 1559, Marin Drži?, Hekuba:

     Ma ovo nadvor gre u srdžbi i u gnijevu vas,

     krv s o?i slipih tre, s oružjem gre put nas;

   • 1630s, Ivan Gunduli?, Osman:

     I gdi unutri o mrak slipi

     Nepoznat se junak hvata

   • 1759, Antun Kanižli?

     Zato slipi, koji sri?i tamjan nose

     i u tugah svojih pomo? od nje prose;

     slipi, koji scine, da je ona ku?a,

     gdi ona prosine, svitla i mogu?a,

     i da dili blago slipa vila svima,

     i kad joj je drago, opet uzme njima.

   • 1762, Matija Antun Relkovi?, Satir iliti divji ?ovik:

     Zar ste slipi, tere ne vidite?

Etymology 2

Neologism, from English slip (of paper).

Noun

slip m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Credit or debit card receipt

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?lip/, [es?lip]

Noun

slip m (plural slip)

1. male briefs
2. female underpants(less usual meaning)

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[3]

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sleep.

Verb

slip

1. sleep

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English sleep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slip/

Noun

slip (nominative plural slips)

1. sleep

Declension