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Definition of Slippy

1. Adjective. Causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide. "The streets are still slippy from the rain"

Definition of Slippy

1. a. Slippery.

Definition of Slippy

1. Adjective. slippery ¹

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Definition of Slippy

1. slippery [adj -PIER, -PIEST] : SLIPPILY [adv] - See also: slippery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slippy

Literary usage of Slippy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs & Travels of Sir John Reresby, Bart by John Reresby (1904)
"The next day we found this more easy than that of Albula; the passage less steep, the descent slippy, but not so narrow. On the top of it we passed a large ..."

2. Clavis Calendaria: Or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar, Illustrated by John Henry Brady (1815)
"WINTER,—slippy, drippy, nippy. SPRING,—showery, flowery, bowery. SUMMER,—hoppy, croppy, poppy. Although the terms Calendar and Almanac are in general ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"slippy, slippery. " Aa canna waak, the flags is that slippy. ... slippy BACKS, vertical planes of cleavage occurring every four or five inches in a seam of ..."

4. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"slippy, slippery. " Aa canna waak, the flags is that slippy. ... slippy BACKS, vertical planes of cleavage occurring every four or five inches in a seam of ..."

5. A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield by Sidney Oldall Addy (1888)
"SLIPPIN, sb. a hank of worsted. ' A raffled slippin' is an entanglement. slippy, adj. slippery. slippy, adj. quick. ' Look slippy ' means ' be quick. ..."

6. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"slippy, adj. (i) slippery. " Moind ye dunna faw, its very slippy." (2) quick. See LOOK slippy. SLITHER, v. to slide. SLIVE, v. to cut off. ..."

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