Word Meanings - SLIPSHOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper. 2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style

Additional info about word: SLIPSHOD

1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper. 2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing. Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod. Shak.

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• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• HEELSPUR
  A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• URCHIN
  A hedgehog. (more info) eriçon, heri, herichon, F. hérisson, a derivative fr. L. ericius,
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• SLIPSHOD
  1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper. 2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• WEARABLE
  Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
• WEARILESS
  Incapable of being wearied.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• WEARISH
  1. Weak; withered; shrunk. "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton. 2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• SLOVENLY
  1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange. 2. Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.