Meaning

noun a socially awkward or tactless act

noun a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

noun potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics

originEtymology tree Proto-West Germanic *slippjander. Old Saxon *slippiander. Middle Low German slippender.? Middle English slippen English slip From Middle English slippen, probably from Middle Low German slippen, from Old Saxon *slippian, from Proto-West Germanic *slippjan, from Proto-Germanic *slipjaną (“to glide”), an iterative form of *slīpaną (“to slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb-…

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