词汇 | slipshod |
词源 | slipshod. The first slipshod people were men in the 16th cen tury who walked the streets in slipshoes, a kind of loose slipper. Such men, slopping along shod in their slipshoes, were consid ered uncouth by respectable people, who soon coined the word slipshod for them, slipshod ultimately applying to anything done in a slovenly way. |
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