different between slop vs sloppy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

Noun

slop (plural slops)

1. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
2. (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A rubber thong sandal.
3. (in the plural) See slops.

Synonyms

• (an item of footwear): see list in flip-flop

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in c?-sloppe), related to slip.

Noun

slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)

1. (uncountable) Liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud.
2. (sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

   Synonyms: hogwash, swill

3. (chiefly in the plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
4. (sometimes in the plural) Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater.
5. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
6. (dated) Human urine or excrement.

Synonyms

• pig food: slops, hogwash, swill

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

slop (third-person singular simple present slops, present participle slopping, simple past and past participle slopped)

1. (transitive) To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves.

   I slopped water all over my shirt.

2. (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
   • 1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)

     a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk

3. (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
4. (transitive) To feed pigs.
5. (intransitive) To make one's way through soggy terrain.
   • 1980, The Leatherneck (volume 63, page 13)

     We slopped through paddies in 100-degree-plus heat and slept with one eye open at night.

Related terms

• sloppy

Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of ecilop, from back slang for police.

Noun

slop (plural slops)

1. (archaic, costermongers) A policeman.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:police officer

Related terms

• namesclop

Anagrams

• LPOs, lops, pols, splo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

slop n (plural sloppen, diminutive slopje n)

1. a bad situation
2. run-down house, shanty

Synonyms

• (run-down house): krot

Anagrams

• pols

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??p/

Noun

sl?p m inan

1. pillar

Inflection

Derived terms

• slôpen

English

Etymology

slop +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?pi/
• Rhymes: -?pi

Adjective

sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

   The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!

2. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

   The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.

3. Imprecise or loose.

   A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Derived terms

• sloppiness
• sloppily
• sloppy drunk
• sloppy joe
• sloppy seconds

Translations

Further reading

• sloppy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sloppy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• polyps