casually

sloppy is an adjective meaning "carefree, informal, expressing disregard for social forms". It also describes a decidedly comfortable clothing with a more sporty than elegant note. The adjective was substantiated in sloppiness for corresponding behavior or utterances or now out of date in sloppy for “negligence; Uncleanliness ".

Salopp for "emphatically casual, sloppy", older also sloppy , sloppy towards the end of the 18th century, was borrowed from the French salope for "unclean, dirty, sloppy" , which is derived from the noun salope , older sloppy for a "negligible , unclean, indecent woman ”. It is assumed that this was formed as a compound from the old French sale "dirty, impure, cloudy" and hoppe , a French-speaking dialect form of huppe for the hoopoe . This bird was considered a dirty animal because it crouches on the ground to camouflage itself and covers itself with earth. In Lorraine , for example, the phrase sale comme une hoppe "dirty as a hoopoe" was common.

A loose , sleeveless outer dress for women, which usually had a large hood instead of a collar, was also called saloppe. The Damen Conversations Lexikon defined this garment in 1837 as follows:

“A middle thing between the coat and the shawl, a long hanging, padded collar made of silk, which had much in common with the now popular mantilla and was once worn just as much by our grandmothers. Sometimes there was also a hood on top that was pulled over the head during sleigh rides or storms. The color of the salopes was mostly black, their ends went down to the knee, and points or fringes and falbalas formed the garnish. The accusatory adjective sloppy for dirty, messy probably came from the fact that the aforementioned toilet piece generally gave the lady who was wearing it a somewhat comfortable, negligee-like appearance. "

- Damen Conversations Lexikon, Volume 9. Leipzig 1837, p. 42.

See also

• Jargon (at the same time as slang )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ casually in the Duden online dictionary, accessed on October 25, 2011
2. ↑ casualness that accessed the Google Online Dictionary, 25 October 2011
3. ↑ Salopperie that accessed the Google Online Dictionary, 25 October 2011
4. ^ Pfeifer: Etymological Dictionary of German, online in: Digital Dictionary of the German Language of the 20th Century
5. ^ Pierer's Universal-Lexikon , Volume 14. Altenburg 1862, p. 801., online at zeno.org
6. ↑ Damen Conversations Lexikon , Volume 9. Leipzig 1837, p. 42. online at zeno.org

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