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Flipflop vs Sandal - What's the difference?

flipflop | sandal |

As nouns the difference between flipflop and sandal

is that flipflop is while sandal is sandal.

As a verb flipflop

is .

flipflop

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • Verb

    (flipflopp)

    • sandal

    English

    (wikipedia sandal)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sandale, from (etyl) sandalium, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
  • sandalwood
  • * Tennyson
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal , amber, ancient rosaries
    Hyponyms
    * flip-flop, jandal, thong

    Etymology 2

    From ; see it for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)sandalwood
  • * Tennyson
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal , amber, ancient rosaries