Slop bowlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

slop bowl (plural slop bowls)

1. (idiomatic) One of the four components of the traditional tea set. Tea drinkers emptied their unwanted, cold tea into the slop bowl before refilling their cups with fresh, hot tea.
2. (derogatory, cooking) A subset of fast casual food served in bowls and marketed as being healthier alternatives.

   Synonym: (less common, uncountable) bowlslop

   • 2025 September 8, Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert, “America's favorite slop bowl chains are in trouble. We tasted them to figure out why.”, in Business Insider‎, MSN.com, retrieved 19 September 2025:

参照

• Savage, George; Newman, Harold (1985), An Illustrated Dictionary of Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, page 266

名詞

slop-bowl (plural slop-bowls)

1. Part of a traditional tea set, used to empty the cold tea and dregs in tea cups before refilling with hot tea. Usually pottery or silver.
2. (dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or inconvenient to go to a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan. Formerly used in private residences, particularly those without an indoor toilet or bathroom.
3. (dated) A large teacup, used especially at breakfast time
   • 1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter III”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     A slop-bowl full of strong tea, together with bread, and butter, and eggs, was produced for him in the morning, and he expected that at whatever hour he might arrive in the evening, some food should be presented to him wherewith to satisfy the cravings of nature; if, in addition to this, he had another slop-bowl of tea in the evening, he got all that he ever required, or all, at least, that he ever demanded.

同意語

• bedpan
• slop-jar
• slop-basin
• slop-pail
• chamber pot
• loo

参照

• Savage, George; Newman, Harold (1985), An Illustrated Dictionary of Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, page 266
• Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, 1897, page 4310