outslip

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ slip.

Verb

outslip (third-person singular simple present outslips, present participle outslipping, simple past and past participle outslipped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To escape, to slip away from. [17th c.]

Noun

outslip (plural outslips)

  1. (obsolete) Something that has slipped out; a mistake, a slip. [17th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.8:
      I often hazard upon certaine outslips [transl. boutades] of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies, whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […] .

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