different between slop vs steep

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?p, IPA^(key): /sti?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English steep, from Old English st?ap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz. Compare Old Frisian st?p, Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”).

The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.

Adjective

steep (comparative steeper, superlative steepest)

1. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

2. (informal) expensive

3. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
   • 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum

     Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected

4. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular

Derived terms

• steepen

Synonyms

• (dialectal) brant

Translations

Noun

steep (plural steeps)

1. The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
   • 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy

     It ended precipitously in a dark and narrow ravine, formed on the other side by an opposite mountain, the lofty steep of which was crested by a city gently rising on a gradual slope

Etymology 2

From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijan? (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English st?pian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Doublet of stoop.

Verb

steep (third-person singular simple present steeps, present participle steeping, simple past and past participle steeped)

1. (transitive, middle) To soak or wet thoroughly.
   • 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower

     In refreshing dews to steep / The little, trembling flowers.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.
   • 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue

   The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.

   • 1989, Black 47, Big Fellah:

     We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood / But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood / And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na mBláth / I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all.

Derived terms

• insteep

Translations

Noun

steep (countable and uncountable, plural steeps)

1. A liquid used in a steeping process

   Corn steep has many industrial uses.

2. A rennet bag.

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References

Anagrams

• Estep, Tepes, speet, teeps, tepes