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slatty

slatty adjective: slatted, having slats. Also the obsolete form of slaty.

Adjective

slatty

  1. Slatted, having slats.
    • ... slatty wood door. Can only see the roof and garden and a gravel pathway.2003 May 1, Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN
    • ... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.2008 11, Robert D. Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 75
  2. (dialectal) Dirty.
    • I can imagine an angel named Marjorie- an angel with- "A red nose," Susan put in, "a thin, slatty looking angel."1908, Jacques Futrelle, The Simple Case of Susan, page 21
    • […] slatty wench, no longer young, And mostly eyes and ears and tongue, She gallops; joyous and alert To ferret out the latest dirt. February 6, 1942 No Horned Heads Sweet peace eludes the grasp of little v 7 v Have You Met Miss Pry?2008 05, Bee Lewis, Lewis Bee Lewis, Gems of Yesterday: The Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 7

Also used as

slatty is also the obsolete form of slaty.

Origin of slatty

From slat + -y.

Questions about slatty

What does slatty mean?
Slatty means slatted, having slats.
What part of speech is slatty?
Slatty is an adjective.

Words near slatty in the dictionary

  1. slattings
  2. Slattocks
  3. Slatton
  4. Slattons
  5. slatts
  6. slatty
  7. slaty
  8. slaty bristlefront
  9. slaty bristlefronts
  10. Slaty Creek
  11. slaty-backed gull

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