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# slippy

«slippy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Slippery; smooth or wet so that you slide or fall easily** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (slippy, slippier, slippiest)

### meaning for a pupil

(informal, UK, Ireland, Australia) Slippery; smooth or wet so that you slide or fall easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, «Careful, it's slippy!» warns about icy paths or wet floors. Phrases: slippy floor, slippy road.

### examples

- Careful, the floor is slippy! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#x1)
- The path is slippy with ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#x2)
- Wet leaves make the road slippy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#x3)
- The soap is so slippy I keep dropping it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#x4)
- My shoes are slippy on the gym floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#x5)
- It was the slippiest day of winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/#x6)

### note

Informal; in writing use slippery. Comparative: slippier, slippiest.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slippy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slippy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.