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slopping
slopping
English
Verb
slopping
- present participle of slop
Noun
slopping (plural sloppings)
- Liquid that has been slopped.
- 1860, Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen
- […] the birth of Christ, when these long valleys […] were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.
- 1860, Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen