sloppery

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Messiness. countable,uncountable
    — And clearly the sailor suit could not trace its true home to a country like ours, which goes in for a widespread concept of uniform usage best described as "sloppery."
  2. Careless imprecision. countable,uncountable
    — Extremes, they say, are prone to meet ; thus, while Yachting is, in matter of practical usage and etiquette, the most ultra exclusive of all our National Sports — presto, it has become the machinery for retail sloppery in the hire of pleasure boats.
  3. Lack of clear-headedness; fuzzy thinking. countable,uncountable
    — This was just — Sloppery. The humbug of the woe-of-the-world business filled her with scorn.
  4. Watery unappetizing food; gruel. countable,uncountable
    — Stews out of all such piddling sloppery, Starvation gruel.
  5. A low-class drinking establishment. countable,uncountable
    — So he jess goes an' sends one on 'em off to England an' 'tother to the south on a two year mishonerry trip, 'an then he comes along 'an claps his cock-eyed sign on the shebang 'an now it's: “All Saints Holy Zion's Co-operative distillery'” or sloppery, wichever ye like.
  6. Anything that is sloppy. countable,uncountable
    — It is a sloppery; a costume that never ought to be seen out of the precincts of a stable-yard.
形容词 adj.
  1. Slippery and messy.
    — The roads will be a bit sloppery, but Dobbin isn't too old to splash through them at a rattling pace.
副词 adv.
  1. In a messy and poorly done manner; sloppily
    — The investigator was expected to determine whether the place was "run sloppery, was it a messy looking place or not ..." and also if the premises were reasonably safe.

词形变化

more sloppery comparative most sloppery superlative more sloppery comparative most sloppery superlative slopperies plural

词源

词源 1
Blend of slippery + sloppy or from slop + -ery (adjectival suffix).
词源 2
From slop + -ery.
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