slopping

slopping

English

Verb

slopping

1. present participle of slop

Noun

slopping (plural sloppings)

1. Liquid that has been slopped.
   • 1860, Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen:

     […] the birth of Christ, when these long valleys […] were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.

   • 1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Wanderings of a Spiritualist

     It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.

Anagrams

• loppings