Definition of "slippering" []

• A spanking with a slipper. (noun)

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• "It isn't simply that the English enjoy a good thrashing, although the English do enjoy a good thrashing and there was undoubtedly something vinegary and astringent about the biennial slippering by non-negotiable new-world excellence."
• "There was a slippering clack of horny hoofs on stone."
• "Tons of it, pounding in history, in hours--there they were awake at the Battle of Salamis, there they were awake when the snake licked Eve's toe, there they were nodding up bright-eyed and famished for news all along the path to the back kitchen door as Holderlin went slippering past for a ten AM tryst with Frau Gontard."