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English
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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]slipper (plural slippers)
- A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- (footwear) Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
- Coordinate term: bootee
- Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
- (US, Hawaii, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- A person or creature that slips.
- 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing, published 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.
- 2020, Dagulf Loptson, Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer:
- He was grey and had eight legs, and could travel anywhere and slip into any corner of 9 worlds. For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
- 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. "
- 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
- (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."
- (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- calceolate (slipper-shaped)
Derived terms
[edit]- ballet slipper
- carpet slipper
- harem slipper
- house-slipper
- house slipper
- hunt the slipper
- Japanese slipper
- Kentucky lady's slipper
- lady slipper
- lady's slipper
- pink lady's slipper
- pipe-and-slipper
- ruby slipper
- slipper animalcule
- slipper chair
- slipper flower
- slipper gourd
- slipper limpet
- slipper lobster
- slipper-orchid
- slipper orchid
- slipper satin
- slipper sock
- slipper spoon
- slipperwort
- Southern lady's slipper
- toilet slipper
- yellow lady's slipper
Descendants
[edit]- Malay: selipar
Translations
[edit]low shoe slipped on and off easily
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low shoe usually worn indoors
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person who slips
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Further reading
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Adjective
[edit]slipper (comparative more slipper, superlative most slipper)
- (obsolete) slippery
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.
Verb
[edit]slipper (third-person singular simple present slippers, present participle slippering, simple past and past participle slippered)
- (UK, 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."
- 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English slipper.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]slipper m (plural slippers, diminutive slippertje n)
Derived terms
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[edit]slipper
Swedish
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[edit]slipper
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with English slipper (“A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]slipper
References
[edit]- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135
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