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slipslop

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slip·slop  (slpslp)
n.
1. Trivial conversation or writing; twaddle.
2. Archaic Unappetizing liquid or watery food; slops.

[Reduplication of slop.]

slipslop [ˈslɪpˌslɒp]
n
1. (Cookery) Archaic weak or unappetizing food or drink
2. Informal maudlin or trivial talk or writing


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This technique is very similar to one common in Fielding's novels, first pointed out in his doctoral dissertation by Wilhelm Fuger, one of the doyens of German narratology: "But we will be more courteous to our reader than he [the coachman] was to Mrs Slipslop, and leaving the coach and its company to pursue their journey, we will carry our reader on after Parson Adams [.
4) These dynamics are best studied in historical and textual particulars, rather than in the abstractions that for so long have enabled out-of-hand dismissals of the Shakespeare Gallery--from the romantic-period painter James Northcote, who derided the collection as "such a collection of slipslop imbecility as it was dreadful to look at," to W.
 
 
 
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