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What is the difference between slippery and slippy ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between slippery and slippy ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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@tomm oh OK. well I will correct myself and say it is not a commonly used word :)
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slippy is definitely not a word I've ever heard someone use before, so I guess you could call it a "dead word"
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i dont know about them but i personally do use that word and hear people using it haha
they mean the same thing except that slippy isn't the formal word(so its used in informal situations like with friends or just people you know) " slippery " is the correct one.
you shouldn't play there its slippy.
this toad is slippy.
be careful those rocks are slippy.
watch out man, those are some slippy steps.
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@liah16111 Really? I've never heard this before. Is it slang? A regional word, if so, where?
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No native speakers use the word âslippyâ. Until you said itâs in the dictionary, I didnât even think it was a word. Itâs also not slang. âSlippy stepsâ sounds extremely strange. If you said that people would probably question what slippy is. Just say slippery
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Could be a British thing. No one in Canada/the US says this
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Itâs a word but slippery is used more often. They have the same meaning :)
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@naturallyinsane Weird. I never knew that. If I heard someone say that here in the states, I'd give them a really weird look and probably laugh. Good to know. Thanks!
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