I shall call you Ally, just like Ally sloper!
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
"Mr. Briefless" became an institution in the paper, as, in other journals, Mr. O. P. Q. Philander Smiff, and again, in a lower social scale, Mr. Alfred sloper, became recognised by a later generation.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
sloper and Smoker mean a maker of slops and smocks respectively, and Smale is an archaic spelling of Small, the modern vowel being in each case lengthened by the retention of an archaic spelling.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley