sloppy

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English slop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English sloppy From slop + -y.

1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

   “The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!”

2. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

   “The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.”

   “Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was one).”

3. Imprecise or loose.

   “a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit”

   “My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.”

4. Resembling or characteristic of AI slop.

name

1. A surname.