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Slipper vs Casual - What's the difference?

slipper | casual |

As nouns the difference between slipper and casual

is that slipper is a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily while casual is (british|nz) a worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.

As adjectives the difference between slipper and casual

is that slipper is (obsolete) slippery while casual is happening by chance.

As a verb slipper

is (uk|australia|nz) to repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.

slipper

English

(wikipedia slipper)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
  • Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
    • Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.
  • A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
  • A person who slips.
  • * 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
    • He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
  • * 1995 , Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching ''Twelfth Night'' and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2, page 3:
    • Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper , hilarious to the spectator across the street.
  • * 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:
    • Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
  • A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
  • A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
  • (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
  • A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
  • * 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
    • "Mrs Marlene Foster , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "
  • The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
  • * 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research
    • "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."

    Synonyms

    * (low shoe) babouche, pantofle * (low shoe worn indoors) flip-flop, sandal, thong

    Derived terms

    * Japanese slipper * slipper animalcule * slipper chair * slipper flower * slipper limpet * slipperwort

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) slippery
    • O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, Australia, NZ) To repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
  • * 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
  • *:"One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "slipper")

    Anagrams

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    casual

    English

    Alternative forms

    * casuall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Happening by chance.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • casual breaks, in the general system
  • Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
    • a constant habit, rather than a casual gesture
  • Employed irregularly.
  • * , chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
  • Careless.
  • * 2007 , Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus (page 117)
    • I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.
  • Happening or coming to pass without design.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
  • Informal, relaxed.
  • Designed for informal or everyday use.

    • Derived terms

    * casually * casualization * smart casual

    Synonyms

    *(happening by chance) accidental, fortuitous, incidental, occasional *(happening or coming to pass without design) unexpected * informal

    Antonyms

    *(happening by chance) inevitable, necessary *(happening or coming to pass without design) expected, scheduled * ceremonial, formal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, NZ) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
  • A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
  • (UK) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see .
  • One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
  • A player of casual games.

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