Slipper vs Flipper - What's the difference?
slipper | flipper |
A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
A person who slips.
* 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5,
* 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,
* 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8,
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
The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
* 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research
(obsolete) slippery
(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."
in marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming
a flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming
a flat lever in a pinball machine, used to keep the ball in play
(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce
(informal, US) television remote control, clicker
(dated, slang) The hand.
(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
* 2005 , Washington appellate reports: Volume 128''
A kitchen spatula
As nouns the difference between slipper and flipper
is that slipper is a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily while flipper is in marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.As verbs the difference between slipper and flipper
is that slipper is to repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment while flipper is to lift one or both flipper out of the water and slap the surface of the water.As an adjective slipper
is slippery.As a proper noun Flipper is
a common name for animals which have flippers, such as dolphins and seals.slipper
English
(wikipedia slipper)Noun
(en noun)- Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.
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- He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
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- 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.
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- Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
- "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. "
- "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, thongDerived terms
* Japanese slipper * slipper animalcule * slipper chair * slipper flower * slipper limpet * slipperwortAdjective
(en adjective)- O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.
Verb
(en verb)External links
* (wikipedia "slipper")Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----flipper
English
(wikipedia flipper)Noun
(en noun)- Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry."