Sleepy vs Slippery - What's the difference?
sleepy | slippery |
Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
* Dryden
Suggesting tiredness.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
* William Shakespeare
Quiet; without bustle or activity.
(informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
* 1964 , Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
* 1991 , Martin Amis, London fields
Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
(figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
(obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
* 1602 , , III. iii. 84:
unstable; changeable; inconstant
* Denham
(obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
* 1610 , , I. ii. 273:
As adjectives the difference between sleepy and slippery
is that sleepy is tired; feeling the need for sleep while slippery is of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.As a noun sleepy
is (informal) the gum that builds up in the eye.sleepy
English
(wikipedia sleepy)Adjective
(er)- She wak'd her sleepy crew.
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.
- a sleepy drink or potion
- 'Tis not sleepy business; / But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
- a sleepy English village
Synonyms
* tired * See alsoNoun
(-)- "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...
- But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...
slippery
English
Adjective
(er)- Oily substances render things slippery .
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- Which when they fall, as being slippery' standers, / The love that leaned on them, as ' slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
- The slippery state of kings.
- My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess –
