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English
Etymology
slop + -y
Pronunciation
Adjective
sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)
- Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- Imprecise or loose.
a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
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Translations
very wet; covered in or composed of slop
messy; not neat, elegant, or careful
- Azerbaijani: səhlənkar
- Bulgarian: недоизкусурен (bg) (nedoizkusuren), немарлив (bg) (nemarliv)
- Catalan: matusser (ca) m, bast (ca) m, desmanegat m, potiner (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 吊兒郎當／吊儿郎当 (zh) (diàorlàngdàng)
- Danish: sjusket
- Dutch: slordig (nl)
- Finnish: huolimaton (fi), hutiloitu, kehno (fi)
- French: bâclé (fr), négligé (fr)
- Georgian: დაუდევარი (daudevari), მოუწესრიგებელი (mouc̣esrigebeli)
- German: schlampig (de), salopp (de)
- Irish: liobarnach
- Italian: sciatto (it), trascurato (it), negletto (it)
- Japanese: ぐちゃぐちゃ (ja) (guchagucha), ずさんな (zusan na), だらしない (ja) (darashinai)
- Macedonian: неу́реден (neúreden), не́брежен (nébrežen), невнима́телен (nevnimátelen), ра́спуштен (ráspušten)
- Maori: hakuhakutai, hakirara
- Persian: شلخته (fa) (šelaxte)
- Plautdietsch: pukjrich
- Polish: niechlujny (pl)
- Portuguese: desleixado (pt)
- Russian: неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj), небре́жный (ru) (nebréžnyj), неаккура́тный (ru) (neakkurátnyj)
- Spanish: desprolijo, chapucero (es), descuidado (es), desaliñado (es), desaseado (es)
- Swedish: slarvig (sv)
- Ukrainian: неоха́йний (neoxájnyj), недба́лий (nedbályj)
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Further reading
- “sloppy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sloppy”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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