slippy
English
Etymology
From slip + -y. Compare Old English slipiġ (“slippy, slimy, viscid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈslɪpi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪpi
Adjective
slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)
- (slightly informal, Western Pennsylvania, UK, Ottawa Valley) Slippery.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
- (UK, dated) Spry, nimble.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 5, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- Well, come on then, let's look slippy.
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