slipshod
\ SLIP-shod \ , adjective;
1.careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work .
2.down-at-heel; seedy; shabby.
3.Archaic . wearing slippers or loose shoes, especially ones worn at the heel.
Quotes:
… Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affiar, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder…
-- Jack London, The Call of the Wild , 1903
At intervals were heard the tread of slipshod feet, and the chilly cry of the poor sweep as he crept, shivering, to his early toil…
-- Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby , 1839
Origin:
Slipshod is formed with the verb sense of slip "to move, flow, or go smoothly or easily" and shod , an adjective meaning "wearing shoes." Slipshod entered English in the late 1500s.
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