Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Slabby character or condition; muddiness] sloppiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality of being slabby.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being slabby.

Etymologies

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slabby +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The way also here was very wearisome through dirt and slabbiness; nor was there on all this ground so much as one inn or victualling-house wherein to refresh the feebler sort.

    Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes 1879

  • The way also here was very wearisome through dirt and slabbiness; nor was there on all this ground so much as one inn or victualling-house wherein to refresh the feebler sort.

    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • _The way also here was very wearisome through dirt and slabbiness; nor was there on all this ground so much as one inn or victualling-house wherein to refresh the feebler sort.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The way also was here very wearisome, through dirt and slabbiness.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • The brutal enemy of the Chechens and other freedom-wanting types is foiiin, as evidenced by the rippling slabbiness of the small gallery below.

    Gawker 2008

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