Slipper

Etymology
From slip.

Noun

 * 1) A low shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
 * 2) Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
 * Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
 * 1) A person who slips.
 * 2) * 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
 * He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
 * 1) * 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 978-0-671-76047-2, 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.
 * 1) * 2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, 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.

Synonyms

 * babouche, pantofle
 * flip-flop, sandal, thong

Derived terms

 * Japanese slipper

Translations

 * Italian:
 * Serbian: натикача


 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog:, bakya


 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拖鞋
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: inniskór
 * Italian:, , babbuccia
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian: šlepetė
 * Macedonian:, влечка
 * Maltese: ,
 * Persian: (kafš-e rāhati),  (pā-poš)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: chinelo, chinelas, pantufa (if fluffy)
 * Russian: тапочки, тапки
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: папуча
 * Roman: papuča
 * Slovene: copat
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Dutch: slipper, slipster , schuiver , schuifster
 * Finnish: liukastuja, lankeaja


 * Italian: dormiente

Anagrams

 * ripples

Verb


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