slipshod
adjUK /ˈslɪp.ʃɒd/ · US /ˈslɪp.ʃɑd/
Etymology From slip + shod (“wearing shoes”), originally wearing slippers. The meaning slovenly is from the early 19th century.
1
Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
- Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.1880, Mark Twain, The Awful German Language:
- Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.1999 August 22, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, in Time:
2
Obsolete Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
- [T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67:
- That glossy, well-brushed individual, who lets himself in with a latch-key at the front door at night, is a very different being from the slipshod wretch who growls of mornings for hot water at the door of the kitchen.1870, Bret Harte, From a Back Window:
- Derived terms
- slipshodly, slipshodness