slop

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

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. (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives.

   • Sir Philip Sidney

     A pair of slops.

Etymology 2

Probably representing Old English *sloppe, related to slip.

Noun

slop ‎(plural slops)

1. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
2. Scraps used as food for pigs.
3. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
4. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
5. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
6. (slang, archaic) A policeman.
   • 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

     Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. After hearing the slop tell his tale, he says to me: 'What do you know of this man? […]

Synonyms

• pig food: slops, hogwash, swill

Derived terms

Derived terms

slop-basin slop-bowl slop-jar

slop-pail slops

Translations

A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud

• Finnish: muta (fi)
• Portuguese: lodo (pt) m
• Russian: помо́и (ru) m pl ‎(pomói)

• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)
• Swedish: slem (sv)

scraps which are fed to pigs

• Finnish: ruoantähteet
• Macedonian: помија f ‎(pómija)
• Polish: pomyje n pl
• Portuguese: lavagem (pt) f

• Russian: помо́и (ru) m pl ‎(pomói)
• Spanish: bazofia (es) f, tichate m
• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)
• Swedish: skula (sv)

clothing and bedding issued to sailors

• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)

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 rim 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

Translations

to spill or dump liquid

• Finnish: läikyttää (fi)
• Portuguese: entornar (pt)

• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)

to feed pigs

• Finnish: ruokkia sikoja

• Macedonian: крми ‎(k'rmi)

Related terms

• sloppy

Anagrams

• lops
• pols

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

slop n ‎(plural sloppen, diminutive slopje n)

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

Synonyms

• (run-down house): krot

Anagrams

• pols

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɔ́p/
• Tonal orthography: slȍp

Noun

slòp m inan ‎(genitive slôpa, nominative plural slôpi)

1. pillar

Declension

Declension of slòp (masculine inan., hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	slòp	slôpa	slôpi
accusative	slòp	slôpa	slôpe
genitive	slôpa	slôpov	slôpov
dative	slôpu	slôpoma	slôpom
locative	slôpu	slôpih	slôpih
instrumental	slôpom	slôpoma	slôpi

Derived terms

• slôpen