slopwork

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Definition of slopwork

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, uncountable, usually)The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
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noun

  1. (archaic, uncountable, usually)The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
  2. (archaic, uncountable, usually)Clothing of this kind.
  3. (archaic, figuratively, uncountable, usually)Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
    “[Thomas] Carlyle continued as busy as ever at what he called 'the despicable craft of reviewing,' but doing his very best with it. No slop-work ever dropped from his pen.”
    “This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.”

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Etymology

From slop + work.

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