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Webster 1913 Edition


Slippy

Slip′py

,
Adj.
[AS.
slipeg
.]
Slippery.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slippy

SLIP'PY

,
Adj.
Slippery. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


slippy

slippy

English

Adjective

slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)

  1. (slightly informal) Slippery.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
      It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
  2. (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.