Slappy vs Sloppy - What's the difference?
slappy | sloppy |
Resembling a slap, especially of sound.
* 1855 , Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
*:Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh
* 1963 , Delphin Rose Adsett, A magpie sings
*:Katy thought about the damp yellow bodies which often landed, with a slappy sound in a burst of moisture and steam rose off them because they were parted from the warmth of their mothers.
* 1998 , Dan Gelo, Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Mandolin - Page 11
* 2009 , Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon - Page 55
*:"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy , unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.
(skateboarding) A grind on a curb without doing an ollie. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
Imprecise or loose.
As adjectives the difference between slappy and sloppy
is that slappy is resembling a slap, especially of sound while sloppy is very wet; covered in or composed of slop.As a noun slappy
is a grind on a curb without doing an ollie.slappy
English
Adjective
(er)- Thin picks flex too much and make your wrist work overtime, plus they tend to produce a slappy tone. Those heavy picks popular with today's bluegrass mandolinists are really too stiff for playing the rapid triplets in some Irish tunes.
- Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
Noun
(slappies)sloppy
English
Adjective
(er)- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!