different between slapper vs slipper

English

Etymology

slap +? -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman."

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?slæp?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?slæp?/
• Rhymes: -æp?(?)

Noun

slapper (plural slappers)

1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
2. (countable, Britain, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
3. (countable, Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A woman of loose morals.
4. (countable, military) A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact.
5. (countable, slang, archaic) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Prealps, lappers, rappels

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?r

Adjective

slapper

1. Comparative form of slap

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slapper

1. present of slappe

English

Etymology

slip +? -er

Pronunciation

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

Noun

slipper (plural slippers)

1. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

   Synonyms: babouche, pantofle

2. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.

3. (US, Hawaii) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

   Synonyms: flip-flop, sandal, thong

4. A person who slips.
   • 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing (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.

5. A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
6. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
7. (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
8. 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. "

9. (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."

10. (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped like a shoe.

Hyponyms

• chinela

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• Malay: selipar

Further reading

• slipper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

slipper (comparative more slipper, superlative most slipper)

1. (obsolete) slippery

Verb

slipper (third-person singular simple present slippers, present participle slippering, simple past and past participle slippered)

1. (Britain, 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slipper

1. present of slippe

Swedish

Verb

slipper

1. present tense of slippa.