Slops vs Mire - What's the difference?
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Scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs.
(in the plural, nautical, dated) clothing and bedding issued to sailors
(in the plural, nautical, dated) sailors' breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century
* 2012 , Nelson's navy , by Philip Haythornthwaite, page 26:
(in the plural, dated) The dirty wastewater of a house.
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
* When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire .'' (, ''Tales from Shakespeare , Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
An undesirable situation, a predicament.
To weigh down.
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
* Shakespeare
Slops is a related term of mire.
As nouns the difference between slops and mire
is that slops is scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs while mire is .slops
English
Noun
(head)- I don't mind slopping the hogs, I just mind the stench of the slops .
- The original "slops " were voluminous breeches of about knee length, reminiscent of 17th century "", worn with stockings; these continue to be depicted as late as 1790s, but trousers, first introduced as slop-clothing in 1720s, were more functional and more popular.
- (A direct quote from: 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , v 4 p 4310)
Synonyms
* slop, hogwash, swillmire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (deep mud) peatland, quagHypernyms
* (deep mud) wetlandHyponyms
* (deep mud) bog, fenDerived terms
* mire crow * mire drum * miry * in the mire * quagmireVerb
(mir)- to mire a horse or wagon
- Smirched thus and mired with infamy.
