Talk:slippy

Should this be marked as slang? RJFJR 23:58, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Regional slang?

Does anyone know if use of this this word is confined to certain areas of the world? Don't think I've ever heard it in New Zealand English. --118.90.54.195 10:51, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

The most famous example is in the song by the British band ‘Underworld’ called ‘Born Slippy’ that appears in the film ‘Trainspotting’. I just heard the odd phrase ‘look slippy’ in an RP accent in the 1944 British film ‘Two thousand women’, so it’s probably just archaic, not dialect.Overlordnat1 (talk) 15:19, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

On the grounds that the D H Lawrence quote and the 1944 film are British and the word clearly wasn’t considered dialect by the screenwriter I’ve given the ‘nimble’ definition a U.K tag and removed the dialect tag. It’s an extremely old-fashioned meaning that does indeed deserve a ‘dated’, if not ‘archaic’ tag, however Overlordnat1 (talk) 17:08, 8 July 2021 (UTC)