Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with slabber; wet; sloppy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
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- adjective Like, or covered with,
slabber orslab ;slippery ;sloppy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"River sand/Was the one clean thing that stayed itself/In that slabbery, clabbery, wintry, puddled ground."
The Second Coming 2008
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Our frost is broken since yesterday, and it is very slabbery; [4] yet I walked to the City and dined, and ordered some things with the printer.
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As he scraped and shovelled the slabbery dung he remembered: "For too long the Catholics of Ulster have been the hewers of wood and the drawers of water."
Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983
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The shell indeed is a noble dish, as it contains all the fine parts of the Turtle baked within its own body; here is the green fat, not the slabbery thing my stomach used to stand at, but firm and more delicate than it is possible to describe.
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Our frost is broken since yesterday, and it is very slabbery; [4] yet I walked to the City and dined, and ordered some things with the printer.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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Our frost is broken since yesterday, and it is very slabbery; [4] yet I walked to the City and dined, and ordered some things with the printer.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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All this concrete and steal is normal for the region: Most houses are made of either wattle and daub or steal reinforced concrete slabbery, with nothing in between.
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