Slops vs Slopes - What's the difference?
slops | slopes |
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.
As nouns the difference between slops and slopes
is that slops is plural of lang=en Scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs while slopes is plural of lang=en.As a verb slopes is
third-person singular of slope.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)