slippy

English edit

From slip +‎ -y. Compare Old English slipiġ (“slippy, slimy, viscid”).

slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)

(slightly informal, Western Pennsylvania, UK, Ottawa Valley) Slippery.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
(UK, dated) Spry, nimble.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 5, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
  Well, come on then, let's look slippy.