Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being slippery, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being slippery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The property of being
slippery . - noun countable The result or product of being
slippery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slippery smoothness
- noun the quality of being a slippery rascal
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some persons use for rubbing a well-waxed flannel; but this in general produces an unpleasant slipperiness, which is not the case with the milk.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Some persons use for rubbing a well-waxed flannel; but this in general produces an unpleasant slipperiness, which is not the case with the milk.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The slipperiness was a disadvantage on the ground, since the aircraft leaked fuel when not flying, but at least JP-7 was not a fire hazard.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The slipperiness was a disadvantage on the ground, since the aircraft leaked fuel when not flying, but at least JP-7 was not a fire hazard.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The slipperiness was a disadvantage on the ground, since the aircraft leaked fuel when not flying, but at least JP-7 was not a fire hazard.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The slipperiness was a disadvantage on the ground, since the aircraft leaked fuel when not flying, but at least JP-7 was not a fire hazard.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I don't think that "slipperiness" adequately characterizes what we're dealing with here.
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But I suspect it was the "slipperiness" that Nat Hentoff spoke of that allowed this biased polemic to slip under the radar of the editors of New York.
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The advantage of true 100% synthetics isn't measured in lubrication qualities like "slipperiness", but more in longevity and "usability".
Cyril Huze Blog Cyril Huze 2010
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"slipperiness" number that tells how easily or how poorly one surface moves over another.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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