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Slabby
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- 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."
- 2 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."
- 3 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."
- 4 Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.
- 5 Rainy, wet. (of weather)
"1581, John Studley (translator), Hercules Oetaeus, Act I, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, London: Thomas Marsh, 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."
- 1 A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs. New-Zealand, informal
"The employer shall supply the sawyer and tailer-out at breast bench, workers operating goose-saws, and slabbies with suitable leather aprons for use while so employed. When requested by the worker a suitable apron shall be supplied to timber stackers, lorry drivers, and machinists."
Etymology
From slab (“mud, sludge”) + -y.
From slab (“solid object that is large and flat”) + -y.
From slab (“solid object that is large and flat”) + -y.
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