slipskin

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English

Etymology

From slip +‎ skin.

Adjective

slipskin (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) evasive
    • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus, Section II:
      A pretty slipskin conveyance to sift mass into no mass, and popish into not popish ; yet saving this passing fine sophistical boulting hutch, so long as she symbolizes in form, and pranks herself in the weeds of popish mass, it may be justly feared she provokes the jealousy of God, no otherwise than a wife affecting whorish attire kindles a disturbance in the eye of her discerning husband.

Noun

slipskin (plural slipskins)

  1. A grape with a loose skin that can easily be slipped off.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slipskin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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