slipslop

[ slip-slop ]

noun

1. meaningless or trifling talk or writing.
2. Archaic. sloppy or weak food or drink.

slipslop

/ ˈslɪpˌslɒp /

noun

1. archaic.
   weak or unappetizing food or drink
2. informal.
   maudlin or trivial talk or writing

Word History and Origins

Origin of slipslop¹

First recorded in 1665–75; gradational compound based on slop ¹

Example Sentences

A couple of centuries ago, English also had the term slipslop as a label for more plausible errors of this kind.

From The Guardian

Using upmost for utmost is a slipslop that the gripers particularly love to hate.

From The Guardian

Most of our novelists write in a slipslop, careless style.

From Project Gutenberg

Slipslop, slip′slop, adj. slipshod, slovenly.—n. thin, watery food: a blunder.—v.i. to slip loosely about.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

The authors we have mentioned, their good contemporaries, and their yet greater predecessors, who gave to our language a literature, and are still all that holds it from sinking into fustian and slipslop, a tag-rag learning and a tatterdemalion English, were those that lay around this ancient lady, and beguiled her old age as they had formed and delighted the youth of her mind and heart.

From Project Gutenberg