slipper

slipper

English

A pair of low-heeled bedroom slippers.

Etymology

slip +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)

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Noun

slipper (plural slippers)

1. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

   Synonyms: babouche, pantofle

   Hyponym: chinela

   Coordinate terms: flip-flop, sandal

2. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.

   Coordinate term: bootee

   Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.

3. (US, Hawaii, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

   Synonyms: flip-flop, sandal, thong

4. A person who slips.
   • 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, page 130:

     He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.

   • 1995, Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

     Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.

   • 2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.

5. A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
6. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
7. (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
8. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
   • 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research

     "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "

9. (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
   • 2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research

     "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."

10. (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped like a shoe.

Derived terms

• Japanese slipper
• slipper animalcule
• slipper chair
• slipper flower
• slipper limpet
• slipper satin
• slipperwort

 

Descendants

• Malay: selipar

Translations

low shoe slipped on and off easily

Afrikaans: (please verify) pantoffel Arabic: خُفّ‎ m (ḵuff), بَابُوج‎ m (bābūj) Egyptian Arabic: شبشب‎ m (šebšeb) Moroccan Arabic: مشاية‎ f (maššāya) Azerbaijani: papış, papuc Bikol Central: tsinelas Brunei Malay: selipar Bulgarian: че́хли (bg) m pl (čéhli) Catalan: plantofa f, sabatilla (ca) f Esperanto: pantoflo Estonian: suss, tuhvel (et) Finnish: tohveli (fi), sandaali (fi) Greek: Ancient: ἐμβάς f (embás), βλαύτη f (blaútē) Italian: ciabatta (it) f Latin: ūdō m, soccus m Macedonian: папуча f (papuča), влечка f (vlečka) Malay: selipar (ms) Maori: hiripa Navajo: bee ńjígeedí (women's), bee ńjídǫ́ǫ́zí (men's) Old English: slīepesċōh m Plautdietsch: Schlorr f Polish: pantofel (pl) m, laczek (pl) m (regional, Greater Poland & Pomerania) Portuguese: pantufa (pt) f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: натикача f, па̀пуча f, патофна f Roman: natikača (sh) f, pàpuča (sh) f, patofna (sh) f Sicilian: savatta (scn) f, pantòfula f Spanish: zapatilla (es) f, pantufla (es) f Swedish: toffel (sv) c Tagalog: tsinelas, bakya Walloon: pantoufe (wa) f Waray-Waray: si-pit

low shoe usually worn indoors

Afrikaans: (please verify) pantoffel Arabic: خُفّ‎ m (ḵuff) Egyptian Arabic: شبشب‎ m (šebšeb), (archaic) بانتوفلي‎ m (bantofli) Armenian: հողաթափ (hy) (hołatʿapʿ) Azerbaijani: çəkələk Belarusian: та́пачкі f pl (tápački), та́пкі f pl (tápki), панто́флі f pl (pantófli) Bikol Central: tsinelas Bulgarian: че́хли (bg) m pl (čéhli), панто́фи (bg) m pl (pantófi) Burmese: ကွင်းထိုးဖိနပ် (my) (kwang:htui:hpi.nap) Catalan: plantofa f, sabatilla (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 拖鞋 (to1 haai4-2) Mandarin: 拖鞋 (zh) (tuōxié) Czech: pantofel (cs) m, trepka (cs) f, papuče (cs) f, pantofle f, bačkora (cs) f Danish: tøffel Dutch: pantoffel (nl) m, slof (nl) m Esperanto: pantoflo, babuŝo Estonian: suss, tuhvel (et) Finnish: tohveli (fi), tossu (fi) French: chausson (fr) m, pantoufle (fr) f Friulian: çavate f Galician: zapatilla f Georgian: ჩუსტი (čusṭi) German: Hausschuh (de) m, Latschen (de) m, Pantoffel (de) m, Patschen (de) m, Puschen (de) m, Schlappen (de) m, Schluffen (de) m Greek: παντόφλα (el) (pantófla) Hindi: स्लिपर्स (slipars), चप्पलें (cappalẽ) Hungarian: papucs (hu), mamusz (hu) Icelandic: inniskór m Ido: pantoflo (io), babucho (io) Italian: pantofola (it) f, ciabatta (it) f, babbuccia f Japanese: スリッパ (surippa) Khmer: ស្បែកជើងផ្ទាត់ (sbaek cəəŋ ptoat) Korean: 슬리퍼 (ko) (seullipeo) Ladino: charuka f, pantufla f (Istanbul), patukla f (Izmir) Latvian: čība f Lithuanian: šlepetė f Low German: German Low German: Pantüffel m, Tüffel (nds) m Macedonian: папуча f (papuča), влечка f (vlečka) Maltese: papoċċa f, slipper m Maori: hiripa Neapolitan: chianiello m, Norman: pantoufl'ye f (Jersey), chapîn m (Jersey), patîn m (Jersey), scarpîn m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: tøffel (no) m Nynorsk: tøffel m Old English: slīepesċōh m Persian: کفش راحتی‎ (kafš-e rāhati), پاپوش‎ (fa) (pā-poš) Polish: kapeć (pl) m, klapek (pl) m (originally open-toed with a broad strap perpendicular to the foot; recently also used for thong-type flip-flops), laczek (pl) m (regional, Greater Poland & Pomerania) Portuguese: chinelo (pt), chinelas, (if fluffy) pantufa (pt) f Romanian: papuc (ro) m Russian: та́почки (ru) m pl (tápočki), та́пки m pl (tápki) Scots: baffie Scottish Gaelic: slapag f, bròg-sheòmair f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: натикача f, патофна f Roman: natikača (sh) f, patofna (sh) f Slovak: pantofel m Slovene: copat m Spanish: pantufla (es) f, zapatilla (es) f, babucha (es) f, zapatilla de estar por casa f Swedish: toffel (sv) c Tagalog: tsinelas Thai: สลิปเปอร์ (sà-líp-bpə̂ə), เกือกแตะ (gʉ̀ʉak-dtɛ̀) Turkish: terlik (tr), pabuç (tr) Ukrainian: панто́фля f (pantóflja), ка́пці m pl (kápci) Uzbek: shippak (uz), tapochka Venetian: ẑavata (vec) f, savata (vec) f, sopèla f, ẑopèla f Vietnamese: dép lê (vi), giày hạ Volapük: pantuf (vo) Walloon: pantoufe (wa) f West Flemish: savatte f, sluffer m

person who slips

Dutch: slipper (nl) m, slipster f, schuiver (nl) m, schuifster f Finnish: liukastuja, lankeaja

Further reading

• slipper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

slipper (comparative more slipper, superlative most slipper)

1. (obsolete) slippery
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479:

     O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.

Verb

slipper (third-person singular simple present slippers, present participle slippering, simple past and past participle slippered)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
   • 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research

     "One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."

Anagrams

• Rippels, Ripples, ripples

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slipper

1. present of slippe

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Swedish

Verb

slipper

1. present tense of slippa.

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Noun

slipper

1. The stick for receiving the spun thread off the spindle of the woollen wheel.

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135