slipperとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

slip +‎ -er

発音

• 韻: -ɪpə(r)

名詞

slipper (複数形 slippers)

1. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

   Synonyms: babouche, pantofle

2. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.

   Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.

3. (US, Hawaii) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

   Synonyms: flip-flop, sandal, thong

4. A person who slips.
   • 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing (1997), →ISBN, page 130:

     He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.

   • 1995, Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

     Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.

   • 2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.

5. A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
6. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
7. (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
8. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
   • 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research

     "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "

9. (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
   • 2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research

     "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."

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