slipper
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Noun (2)slippers
- low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoorsSynonyms: carpet slipperType of footwear, footgearKinds mule, bootee
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of tractionSynonyms: skiddersliderType of actor, doerKinds snowboarder
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Translations
Noun low shoe usually worn indoors
- Spanish
- pantufla
- French
- chausson
- German
- Hausschuh
- Italian
- pantofola
- Portuguese
- chinelo
- Turkish
- terlik
- Russian
- та́почка tápočka
- Arabic
- خُفّ ḵuff
- Chinese
- 拖鞋 tuōxié
- Japanese
- スリッパ surippa
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- Dutch
- pantoffel
- Polish
- kapeć
- Swedish
- toffel
- Greek
- παντόφλα pantófla
- Korean
- 슬리퍼 seullipeo
- Indonesian
- sandal rumah
- Vietnamese
- dép lê
- Hungarian
- papucs
- Portuguese (PT)
- chinelo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 拖鞋 tuōxié
- Albanian
- pantofël
- Catalan
- plantofa
- Czech
- pantofel
- Danish
- tøffel
- Esperanto
- pantoflo
- Estonian
- suss
- Finnish
- tohveli
- Georgian
- ჩუსტი čusṭi
- Hebrew
- נַעַל בַּיִת ná'al báyit
- Icelandic
- inniskór
- Latvian
- čība
- Lithuanian
- šlepetė
- Norwegian
- tøffel
- Romanian
- papuc
- Scottish Gaelic
- slapag
- Serbo-Croatian
- papuča
- Slovak
- papuča
- Slovenian
- copat
- Walloon
- pantoufe
- Welsh
- sliper
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. One who, or that which, slips.
2. A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
3. A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
4. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
5. Machinery A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; — also called shoe, and gib.
Slipper animalcule Zoology, a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. — Slipper flower.Botany Slipperwort. — Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell Zoology, a boat shell.
Origin: AS. slipur.
Slippery. obsolete
O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men.— Edmund Spenser
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54