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slathers

slathers is the plural of slather.

slathers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slather.

Meaning of slather

Noun

slather (plural slathers)

  1. (transitive) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.
  2. (transitive) Drool (especially if abundant).
    • [The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.1983, Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177
  3. (plural-normally, transitive) A generous or abundant quantity.
    • Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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Questions about slathers

What is slathers the plural of?
Slathers is the plural of slather.

Words near slathers in the dictionary

  1. slateyness
  2. slather
  3. slathered
  4. slathering
  5. slatherings
  6. slathers
  7. slatier
  8. slatiest
  9. slatily
  10. Slatina
  11. Slatina-Timiș

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