slabbery

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word slabbery. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word slabbery, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say slabbery in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word slabbery you have here. The definition of the word slabbery will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofslabbery, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From slabber +‎ -y.

Adjective

slabbery (comparative more slabbery, superlative most slabbery)

  1. Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
    • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):
      Later in the day Dunlop told Cal to muck out the byre and because it was something he could do he went at it with a will. 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.'

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slabbery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia