slabbier

Adjective (1)

slabby (comparative slabbier, superlative slabbiest)

1. Of a liquid: thick; viscous.
   • The Pope in sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.1696, John Selden, “Pope”, in Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, page 127
2. Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.
   • When waggiſh Boys the ſtunted Beeſom ply, / To rid the ſlabby Pavement; paſs not by / E’er thou haſt held their Hands; ſome heedleſs Flirt / Will over-ſpread thy Calves with ſpatt’ring Dirt.[1716], [John] Gay, “Book II. Of Walking the Streets by Day.”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 27
3. Rainy, wet. (of weather)
   • To Virgo, Leo turnes the time, and in a reaking sweate.
     He buskling vp his burning Mane, doth dry the dropping south.
     And swallowes vp the slabby cloudes in fyry foming mouth.1581, John Studley (translator), Hercules Oetaeus, Act I, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, London: Thomas Marsh

Adjective (2)

slabby (comparative slabbier, superlative slabbiest)

1. Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
   • Then he set up another shop an’ hired some of us ’round here to go an’ make them big, slabby art-chairs.1905, Robert W. Chambers, Iole, New York: D. Appleton, page 3
2. Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.

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