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Slop vs Blop - What's the difference?

slop | blop |

As nouns the difference between slop and blop

is that slop is a loose outer garment; a jacket or overall or slop can be (uncountable) a liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste while blop is blob (vague amorphous mass of stuff).

As verbs the difference between slop and blop

is that slop is to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves while blop is to plop (land loosely).

slop

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
  • (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • A pair of slops .

    Etymology 2

    Probably representing (etyl) *(term), related to (slip).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
  • scraps used as food for pigs
  • (dated) Human urine or excrement.
  • Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  • (chiefly, plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
    • Synonyms
    * pig food: slops, hogwash, swill
    Derived terms
    * slops * slop-jar * slop-basin * slop-bowl * slop-pail

    Verb

  • to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.
    • I slopped water all over my shirt.
  • To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
  • * 1950 , Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)
    • a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
  • In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
  • to feed pigs
    • Related terms
    * sloppy

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    blop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • blob (vague amorphous mass of stuff)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2005 , author=Timothy Kandler Beal , title=Roadside religion: in search of the sacred, the strange, and the substance of faith , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=183 , passage=At the top of each is a piece of broken glass embedded in a blop of concrete. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , author= Mark Haskell Smith , title= Moist: A Novel? , chapter= citation , isbn=0802143350, 9780802143358 , page=123 , passage=He poured a cup of the thick institutional brew, stirred in a packet of chemical sweetener and a blop of Irish creme- flavored nondairy additive...}}

    Verb

    (blopp)
  • To plop (land loosely)