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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.
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)
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender:, London: Hugh Singleton,, →OCLC; reprinted as H Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender, London: John C. Nimmo,, 1890, →OCLC:
O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.
Verb
slipper (third-person singular simple presentslippers, present participleslippering, simple past and past participleslippered)
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