slipslop

[slip-slop]

noun

1. meaningless or trifling talk or writing.

2. Archaic.,  sloppy or weak food or drink.

slipslop

/ ˈslɪpˌslɒp /

noun

1. archaic,  weak or unappetizing food or drink

2. informal,  maudlin or trivial talk or writing

Word History and Origins

Origin of slipslop¹

First recorded in 1665–75; gradational compound based on slop ¹

Example Sentences

Using upmost for utmost is a slipslop that the gripers particularly love to hate.

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A couple of centuries ago, English also had the term slipslop as a label for more plausible errors of this kind.

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Most of our novelists write in a slipslop, careless style.

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Slipslop, slip′slop, adj. slipshod, slovenly.—n. thin, watery food: a blunder.—v.i. to slip loosely about.—adj.

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The authors we have mentioned, their good contemporaries, and their yet greater predecessors, who gave to our language a literature, and are still all that holds it from sinking into fustian and slipslop, a tag-rag learning and a tatterdemalion English, were those that lay around this ancient lady, and beguiled her old age as they had formed and delighted the youth of her mind and heart.

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