slip-shodとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• slip-shod

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈslɪp.ʃɒd/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈslɪp.ʃɑd/
• 韻: -ɒd

形容詞

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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:careless

派生語