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    Slippy means a surface or object is hard to stand or hold onto because it is wet, icy, polished, or covered in something that makes you slide. If the bathroom floor is slippy, your foot goes out from under you. If a fish is slippy, it wriggles out of your hands. People also say the roads are slippy after rain or frost — that is the weather use, and it is very common. Though actually, many teachers will mark slippy as “not the real word” and tell you to write slippery. Both are real. Slippy is the shorter, more spoken form. You hear it a lot in Britain and Ireland, in homes and on the news when they talk about ice. Slippery is the form textbooks and American English prefer, and it sounds a little more careful. Some older speakers treat slippy as or even a bit childish, the way we say “the floor is all slippy.” It is not rude, and it is not a spelling mistake for slippery. It just sits on the informal side. You would probably not put it in a formal report; you would put it in a warning to a child, or in a message about the pavement.

    滑的、滑溜的(口語,英式說法,意思同 slippery)

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組成From slip + -y: slip is the sliding, and -y turns it into an adjective, “full of that sliding quality.” Compare Old English slipiġ, which already meant slippy, slimy, sticky.

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  • slipthe verb and noun this adjective is built from
  • slipperythe more formal, textbook twin; same slip, longer ending

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

slippyadj/ˈslɪpi/

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    Slippery.

    • It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
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    datedSpry, nimble.

    • Well, come on then, let's look slippy.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。