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slipshod (adj.)
1570s, "wearing slippers or loose shoes," from
slip
(v.) +
shod
"wearing shoes." Sense of "slovenly, careless" is from 1815, probably from the notion of appearing like one in slippers, or whose shoes are down at the heels.
