sloppy
/ˈslɑ.pi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!"
- "The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase."
- "a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit"
- "My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge."
- "Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was one)."
- "The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English *sloppe Middle English *sloppe? English slop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English sloppy From slop + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈslɑ.pi/
- British English: /ˈslɒ.pi/