slipshod

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English

WOTD – 21 August 2008

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Etymology

slip + shod (“wearing shoes”), originally "wearing slippers", "slovenly" is from early 19th century.

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slipshod (comparative more slipshod, superlative most slipshod)

  1. Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
    • 1880, Mark Twain, The Awful German Language:
      Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
    • 1999 August 22, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, in Time:
      Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
  2. (obsolete) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
    • 1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67:
      [T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.
    • 1870, Bret Harte, From a Back Window:
      That glossy, well-brushed individual, who lets himself in with a latch-key at the front door at night, is a very different being from the slipshod wretch who growls of mornings for hot water at the door of the kitchen.

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