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slip⋅per⋅y
[slip-uh-ree, slip-ree]
–adjective, -per⋅i⋅er, -per⋅i⋅est.
| 1. | tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road. |
| 2. | tending to slip from the hold or grasp or from position: a slippery rope. |
| 3. | likely to slip away or escape: slippery prospects. |
| 4. | not to be depended on; fickle; shifty, tricky, or deceitful. |
| 5. | unstable or insecure, as conditions: a slippery situation. |
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Slippery
Slip"per*y\, a. [See Slipper, a.]1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. The slippery tops of human state. --Cowley. 3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. The slippery god will try to loose his hold. --Dryden. 4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. --Shak. 5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. "The slippery state of kings." --Denham. 6. Uncertain in effect. --L'Estrange. 7. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. --Shak. Slippery elm. (Bot.) (a) An American tree (Ulmus fulva) with a mucilagenous and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself. (b) A malvaceous shrub (Fremontia Californica); -- so called on the Pacific coast.
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Language Translation for : slippery
Spanish:
resbaladizo, resbaloso,
German:
glatt,
Japanese:
すべりやすい
slippery
1535, from slip (v.) (cf. O.E. slipor "slippery"). Metaphoric sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1555; slippery slope first attested 1951.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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