slopping
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]slopping
- present participle and gerund of slop
Noun
[edit]slopping (plural sloppings)
- Liquid that has been slopped.
- 1860, Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen:
- […] the birth of Christ, when these long valleys […] were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.
- 1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Wanderings of a Spiritualist:
- It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.