Etymograph

English

slooplike

From sloop + -like.

Formed from sloop + -like

Old French eschalope ‘pod, shell, nutshell’

Middle French chaloupe

Dutch sloep ‘a sloop’

English sloop

Today it means

adj Resembling or characteristic of a sloop.

Sources

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