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slabbery

slabbery adjective: like, or covered with, slobber; slippery; sloppy.

Adjective

slabbery (comparative more slabbery, superlative most slabbery)

  1. Like, or covered with, slobber; slippery; sloppy.
    • 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.'1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)

Forms of slabbery

comparativemore slabbery
superlativemost slabbery

Origin of slabbery

From slabber + -y.

Questions about slabbery

What does slabbery mean?
Slabbery means like, or covered with, slobber; slippery; sloppy.
What part of speech is slabbery?
Slabbery is an adjective.

Words near slabbery in the dictionary

  1. slabbered
  2. slabberer
  3. slabberers
  4. slabbering
  5. slabbers
  6. slabbery
  7. slabbier
  8. slabbies
  9. slabbiest
  10. slabbily
  11. slabbiness

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