slop
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they slop | |
he / she / it slops | |
past simple slopped | |
past participle slopped | |
-ing form slopping |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
(of a liquid )液体 to move around in a container, often so that some liquid comes out over the edge 晃荡;(常指)溢出,溅出 - [transitive] slop something (+ adv./prep.)
to make liquid or food come out of a container in an untidy way synonym spill倒出;使泼出;使溅洒
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘to spill, splash’). Early use of the noun denoted ‘slushy mud’, the first of the current senses (‘unappetizing food’) dating from the mid 17th cent.