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slopping

slopping

English

Verb

slopping

  1. present participle of slop

Noun

slopping (plural sloppings)

  1. 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.