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Slipper vs Hat - What's the difference?

slipper | hat |

As verbs the difference between slipper and hat

is that slipper is (uk|australia|nz) to repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment while hat is has.

As a noun slipper

is a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

As an adjective slipper

is (obsolete) slippery.

slipper

English

(wikipedia slipper)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
  • Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
    • Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.
  • A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
  • A person who slips.
  • * 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
    • He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
  • * 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, page 3:
    • 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.
  • * 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:
    • Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
  • 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
    • "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. "
  • The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
  • * 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research
    • "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, thong

    Derived terms

    * Japanese slipper * slipper animalcule * slipper chair * slipper flower * slipper limpet * slipperwort

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) slippery
    • O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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."

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "slipper")

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    hat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat -and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • (lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
  • *1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3, p.121:
  • *:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
  • (lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
  • # The lottery or draw itself.
  • #:
  • (lb) A hat switch.
  • *2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:
  • *:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.
  • *1997 October 6th, “ Patricia V. Lehman]” (user name), [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/topics?hl=en rec.antiques] (Usenet newsgroup), “[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/browse_thread/thread/67b2bb8b89588055/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22hat%22#8496fc478c032593 Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia]”, [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/msg/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
  • *:I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat' over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “' hat .”
    • Hyponyms
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    Derived terms

    {{der3, at the drop of a hat , bowler hat , brick in one's hat , hang one's hat on , hard hat , hatband , hatnote , hat parade , hatpin , hat trick , hatstand , hatter , home is where you hang your hat , put one's name in the hat , take one's hat off to , talk through one's hat , throw one's hat in the ring , pass the hat , under one's hat , wear too many hats , woolly hat}} (-)

    See also

    * take one's hat off to

    External links

    * ("hat" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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