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Slippy or Slippery - What's the difference?

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Slippery is a synonym of slippy.



As adjectives the difference between slippy and slippery

is that slippy is slippery 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.

slippy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Slippery.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
  • (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:Well, come on then, let's look slippy .

    • slippery

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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.
    • Oily substances render things slippery .
  • (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
    • a slippery person
    a slippery promise
  • (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  • * 1602 , , III. iii. 84:
    • 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.
  • unstable; changeable; inconstant
  • * Denham
    • The slippery state of kings.
  • (obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
  • * 1610 , , I. ii. 273:
    • My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess –

    Derived terms

    * slippery as an eel * slippery elm * slippery nipple * slippery slope

    Related terms

    * slip

    Synonyms

    * (of a surface) greasy, slick, slimy, slippy, wet

    Antonyms

    * (of a surface) sticky