Brewer's: Slop

(Dr.). A choleric physician in Sterne's Tristram Shandy.

Dr. Slop.
Sir John Stoddart, M.D., a choleric physician who assailed Napoleon most virulently in The Times, of which he was editor. (1773-1856.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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