houseslipper

houseslipper (plural houseslippers)

1. Alternative spelling of house slipper
   • 1948, Virgil Scott, The Hickory Stick, page 88:

     The houses had been on Langley, McKinley, Allen, Twelfth, Eleventh, and Tenth, and sometimes the woman who answered the bell was fat and many-chinned and dressed in a dirty apron and run-over felt houseslippers, and sometimes she was thin and bony-chinned and dressed in a dirty apron and run-over felt houseslippers.

   • 1957, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board:

     In the houseslipper section at Fourth Street no employees are permanently assigned.

   • 1987, Susan Lenzkes, A silver pen for cloudy days, →ISBN, page 38:

     One day I witnessed our kitten bravely stalk and kill one of my most amenable, non-threatening houseslippers.

   • 1994, American Diplomatic and Consular Service, State, page 4:

     One game I play is to take an object my son likes to play with, like a houseslipper, and hide it underneath three or four towels.

   • 2000, Cynthia Yates, Brenda's Gift: A Novel, →ISBN, page 315:

     The shoe is going to drop any minute. When it did, it felt more like a fuzzy houseslipper than a heavy boot.

   • 2009, Jennifer Crane, Coopers Crossing, →ISBN, page 256:

     From the tangled pile of ugliness snarled on the bed, Sherry gleefully pulled a pair of Mrs. Smith's support hose, a pink houseslipper and a brown penny loafer, a black hairnet and a purple cameo choker, a bottle of cheap eau de cologne called Evening in Paris, and a red-orange lipstick.