Slabbiness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being slabby; sliminess, muddiness. uncountable

    "1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183, The Way also was here very wearysom thorow Dirt and Slabbiness."

  2. 2
    The quality of being composed of or resembling slabs. uncountable

    "1895, W. P. Haskett Smith, “Wales” in Climbing in the British Isles, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., “The Arans,” Looking up from the lake the crag, which is a high dependence of Aran Benllyn, shows on the right an almost unrelieved slabbiness at an easy angle, which gives good practice in small footholds."

Etymology

From slabby + -ness.

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