slip
/ˈslɪp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, […]"
- "Fernando Amorebieta seemed to have checked him, but a stepover created a fraction of room that became significant as the defender slipped, giving Falcao just enough space to curl a superb finish into the top corner."
- "There is one that slippeth in his speach, but not from his heart, and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?"
- "She kept engaging with the caller, though, hoping he would slip and reveal her daughter’s location."
- "A bone may slip out of place."
- "I caught the thief, but he slipped my grasp and ran away."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *slippjander. Old Saxon *slippiander. Middle Low German slippender.? Middle English slippen English slip From Middle English slippen, probably from Middle Low German slippen, from Old Saxon *slippian, from Proto-West Germanic *slippjan, from Proto-Germanic *slipjaną (“to glide”), an iterative form of *slīpaną (“to slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to slide”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), or related to Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”); related to Old English slipor (“slippery”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian slipje (“to slip”), Dutch slippen (“to slip”), German Low German slippen.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: slippen, *slippian, *slippjan, *slipjaną, *sleyb-, *slewbʰ-
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete
- Dated
- British usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable