sloppy

adj
/ˈslɒp.i/UK/ˈslɑ.pi/US

Etymology

From slop + -y.

  1. inherited from slyppe
  2. inherited from *sloppe
  3. inherited from *sloppe
  4. formed as sloppy — “slop + -y

Definitions

  1. Very wet

    Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

    • The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
  2. Messy

    Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

    • The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
    • The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.
  3. Imprecise or loose.

    • a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
    • My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Resembling or characteristic of AI slop.

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sloppy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA