SLIPPY

slippery, slippy

(adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; “slippery sidewalks”; “a slippery bar of soap”; “the streets are still slippy from the rain”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)

(slightly informal) Slippery.

(dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.

Source: Wiktionary


Slip"py, a. Etym: [AS. slipeg.]

Definition: Slippery.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

23 November 2024

THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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