slopworkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From slop +‎ work.

名詞

slopwork (usually uncountable, plural slopworks) (archaic)

1. The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
2. Clothing of this kind.
3. (figuratively) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
   • 1882, James Anthony Froude, “A.D. 1829. Æt. 34.”, in Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 52:

     [Thomas] Carlyle continued as busy as ever at what he called 'the despicable craft of reviewing,' but doing his very best with it. No slop-work ever dropped from his pen.

   • 1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time:

     This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.

参照

• “slopwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.