Slabbery

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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.'"

Synonyms

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slippery

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"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.'"

Etymology

From slabber + -y.

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