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Where does “slipslop” come from?

slipslop (English) comes from English slop, from English ecilop, from English police, from Middle French police, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της, from Ancient Greek -της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

slipslop (English): Nonsense; gibberish; twaddle; Poor writing; text...

Definitions

  1. Nonsense; gibberish; twaddle; Poor writing; text...

Ancestry of “slipslop”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishslopA loose outer garment; a jacket or overall; A...
2Englisheciloppolice
3EnglishpoliceA civil force granted the legal authority for law...
4Middle Frenchpolicegovernance; management
5Latinpolītīa—
6Ancient Greekπολιτείαthe relation in which a citizen stands to the...
7Ancient Greekπολῑ́τηςcitizen
8Ancient Greek-τηςForms nouns representing a state of being; Added...
9Proto-Hellenic-tāts—
10Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
11Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
12Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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