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slippery
English
Etymology
From Middle English slipperie, an extended form ( +? -y) of Middle English slipper, sliper (“slippery”), from Old English slipor (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”), equivalent to slip +? -er. Compare also Middle English slibbri, slubbri (“slippery”) borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slibberich (“slippery”). Cognate with German schlüpfrig (“slippery”), Danish slibrig (“slippery”), Swedish slipprig (“slippery”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sl?p??i/, /?sl?p?i/
Adjective
slippery (comparative slipperier, superlative slipperiest)
- Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
- Oily substances render things slippery.
- (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III. iii. 84:
- Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, / The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III. iii. 84:
- Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
- 1668, Sir John Denham
- He looking down
With scorn or pity on the slippery state
Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate.
- He looking down
- 1668, Sir John Denham
- (obsolete) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I. ii. 273:
- My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess –
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I. ii. 273:
Synonyms
- (of a surface): greasy, slick, slimy, slippy, wet
Antonyms
- (of a surface): sticky
Derived terms
Related terms
- slip
Translations
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slipmat
English
Etymology
slip +? mat
Noun
slipmat (plural slipmats)
- A circular piece of slippery material used by turntable disk jockeys instead of the traditional rubber mat, allowing a record to be manipulated while the platter continues to rotate underneath.
See also
- slip-cueing
Anagrams
- palmist
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- what do slipmats do
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- what are vinyl slipmats for
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