The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
SLOPPY
haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
(adjective) marked by great carelessness; “a most haphazard system of record keeping”; “slapdash work”; “slipshod spelling”; “sloppy workmanship”
overemotional, sloppy
(adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional
baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy
(adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely; “baggy trousers”; “a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather”
sloppy
(adjective) lacking neatness or order; “a sloppy room”; “sloppy habits”
boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”
sloppy
(adjective) wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; “a sloppy floor”; “a sloppy saucer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
Imprecise or loose.
Synonyms
• See also careless
Anagrams
• polyps
Source: Wiktionary
Slop"py, a. [Compar. Sloppier; superl. Sloppiest.] Etym: [From Slop.]
Definition: Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTFULLY
(adverb) showing consideration and thoughtfulness; “he had thoughtfully brought with him some food to share”
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