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Slop

noun

1.

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk. Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill.

2.

Deep soft mud in water or slush. Synonym: mire.

3.

(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

4.

(usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink.

5.

Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental. Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle.

verb

(past & past part. slopped; pres. part. slopping)

1.

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container. Synonyms: spill, splatter. "Splatter water"

2.

Walk through mud or mire. Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish.

3.

Ladle clumsily.

4.

Feed pigs. Synonym: swill.

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"Slop" Quotes from Famous Books

... came, how nice everything was down stairs. We cooked nearly a fortnight, and washed dishes, and everything; and we only had the floor scrubbed once, and there never was a slop on the stove, or a teaspoonful of anything spilled. It would be so different from a girl! It seems as if we might bring the kitchen up stairs, instead of going down into ...

— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... when the men were gone, and he had bundled up his papers, "the law requires you to carry a slop-chest and a ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... that he would. It was her business and not his to feed the pigs. Besides, the bucket was very full. That its contents should stain her dress did not matter. It would have been a much more serious thing if any of the yellow slop had trickled ...

— General John Regan - 1913 • George A. Birmingham

... our halt at Suez, with visits to slop-shops and a general discussion of choppes. The old hotel, under the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Adams, had greatly improved by the "elimination" of the offensive Hindi element; and my old friends of a quarter-century's standing received me with all their ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton

... employments to rescue her children from a multitude of perils. An infant and a fireplace act upon each other like magnets; a small boy is always trying to eat a kettle or a piece of coal or the backbone of a herring; a little girl and a slop bucket are in immediate contact; the baby has a knife in its mouth; the twin is on the point of swallowing a marble, or is trying to wash itself in the butter, or the cat is about to take a nap on its face. Indeed, the woman who has six children never knows in what direction ...

— Mary, Mary • James Stephens

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