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Slippy

adjective
1.
Causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide.  Synonym: slippery.  "A slippery bar of soap" , "The streets are still slippy from the rain"






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"Slippy" Quotes from Famous Books



... And then he laid down on the bank and stuck his head right into the spring to show them. Oh, it wasn't the spring we drink out of . . ." seeing a horrified look on Marilla's face . . . "it was the little one lower down. But the bank's awful slippy and Paul went right in. I tell you he made a bully splash. Oh, Anne, Anne, I didn't mean to say that . . . it just slipped out before I thought. He made a SPLENDID splash. But he looked so funny when he crawled out, all wet and muddy. The girls laughed more'n ever, but Gracie ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... away. The boy was terrible weak and ailing, but we set off to walk, though very soon I had to carry mun; and so I dropped behind. The road lay through the mountains now, and was terrible rough and steep, while the snow come down and made the ways so slippy that it was hard to move without falling. But on I went, I can't tell how, though there was many that dropped behind me and never come up again. That march was terrible long, and the boy kept crying to be ...
— The Drummer's Coat • J. W. Fortescue

... rounds o' yer ladder was slippy," answered Rooney, with some indignation. "Didn't ye see, I lost me howld? Come, putt on the glass an' I'll try again. Never say die was a motto of me owld father, an' it was the only legacy he ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne



Words linked to "Slippy" :   nonstick, slipping, sliding, slick, lubricious, slip, slithery, slithering, smooth, slimed, slimy, nonslippery



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