slop

C2+ Topic:Materials & Substances

US /slɑp/ UK /slɒp/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like slap /æ/ vs /ɑ/ Sounds like slope /ɑ/ vs /oʊ/

Meanings

1

noun
spilled or unappetizing liquid food; to spill carelessly

He fed the slop to the pigs at dawn.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · spilled or unappetizing... spill splash slosh swill splatter

Word family

Derived forms sloppy sloppiness

Related forms slip slobber

Etymology

From Middle English sloppe ('mud, slush, muddy place'), probably from Old English -sloppe (as in cū-sloppe 'cowslip', literally cow-dung), of Germanic origin.

sloppe Old English

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Topics

Materials & Substances

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# slop

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /slɑp/
**IPA (UK):** /slɒp/

## Meanings
1. spilled or unappetizing liquid food; to spill carelessly

## Examples
- He fed the slop to the pigs at dawn.

## Synonyms
- spill
- splash
- slosh
- swill
- splatter

## Derived Forms
- sloppy
- sloppiness

## Related Forms
- slip
- slobber

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: sloppe

## Etymology
From Middle English sloppe ('mud, slush, muddy place'), probably from Old English -sloppe (as in cū-sloppe 'cowslip', literally cow-dung), of Germanic origin.

## AI Etymology
Slop comes from Middle English sloppe ('mud, slush, muddy place'), probably from Old English -sloppe (as in cū-sloppe 'cowslip', literally cow-dung), of Germanic origin. The historical chain includes Old English sloppe. Older glosses in the chain include "mud, slush, muddy place" and "cowslip", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, slop is best read as borrowing, yielding an English noun and verb shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun and verb, with the sense "spilled or unappetizing liquid food; to spill carelessly". English derivatives include sloppy and sloppiness; related forms include slip and slobber. The result is an English noun and verb whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Materials & Substances

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