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Webster 1913 Edition
Slippy
Slip′py
,Adj.
[AS.
slipeg
.] Slippery.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slippy
SLIP'PY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
slippy
slippy
English
Adjective
slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)
- (slightly informal) Slippery.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- Well, come on then, let's look slippy.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5