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Sloppy vs Slippy - What's the difference?

sloppy | slippy |

As adjectives the difference between sloppy and slippy

is that sloppy is very wet; covered in or composed of slop while slippy is slippery.

sloppy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
    • The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
  • Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
    • The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
  • Imprecise or loose.
    • A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sloppiness

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    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 .