In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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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