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Slapping vs Slopping - What's the difference?

slapping | slopping |

As verbs the difference between slapping and slopping

is that slapping is while slopping is .

As nouns the difference between slapping and slopping

is that slapping is the act of giving a slap or slaps while slopping is liquid that has been slopped.

As an adjective slapping

is (slang) very large; whopping.

slapping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a slap or slaps.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Very large; whopping.
  • * 1921 , Dogdom: Monthly: Volume 22
    • It remains to be seen whether she will retain her coat after whelping; if she does, then Americans will be able to admire a slapping great collie bitch — a matron of the robust kind yet retaining all those graces of the collie female of quality.

    slopping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Liquid that has been slopped.
  • * 1860 , Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen
    • 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.