Slop
[slɒp] or [slɑp]
Definition
(noun.) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.
(noun.) (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink; 'he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided'.
(noun.) (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; 'she carried out the sink slops'.
(noun.) deep soft mud in water or slush; 'they waded through the slop'.
(verb.) feed pigs.
(verb.) ladle clumsily; 'slop the food onto the plate'.
Checked by Gilbert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
(n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
(v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
(v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
(v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
(v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
(v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Editor: Segre
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Spill.
Typed by Edwina
Definition
n. water carelessly spilled: a puddle: mean liquor or liquid food: (pl.) dirty water.—v.t. to soil by letting a liquid fall upon:—pr.p. slop′ping; pa.p. slopped.—ns. Slop′-bā′sin -bowl a basin for slops esp. for the dregs of tea and coffee cups at table; Slop′-dash weak cold tea &c.: Slop′-pail a pail for collecting slops; Slop′piness.—adj. Slop′py wet: muddy.
Edited by Barbie
Examples
- A tempest in a slop-basin is absurd. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I'm none o' yer gentlemen planters, with lily fingers, to slop round and be cheated by some old cuss of an overseer! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She drove over constantly from Roehampton and entertained her friend with faint fashionable fiddle-faddle and feeble Court slip-slop. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I came to her aid, took a seat near her, managed the urn and the slop-basin, and in fact made the tea for her like any old woman. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He poured it from the bottle slopping it over a little so some ran down on the zinc. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Any slops, eh? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You may find on trying them that they will answer your purpose to-morrow, as well as the slops you mean to buy, or better. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had no change of outer clothes with me, as I was to buy slops. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Barton