Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Slipperiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Slipperiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
slippy .
Etymologies
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slippy + -ness
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Examples
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It even seemed to him (though that might arise from the flattery of his own imagination) that during this short passage she leaned on him somewhat more than the slippiness of the way necessarily demanded.
Kenilworth 2004
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It even seemed to him (though that might arise from the flattery of his own imagination) that during this short passage she leaned on him somewhat more than the slippiness of the way necessarily demanded.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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'ridiculous', and there are some gripes about 'slippiness in the way that characters animate and attach themselves to cover'
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