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Slather

//ˈslæðə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food. transitive
  2. 2
    Drool (especially if abundant). transitive

    "[The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf."

  3. 3
    A generous or abundant quantity. plural-normally, transitive

    "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 slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season."

Verb
  1. 1
    To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well. transitive

    "I slathered jam on my toast."

  2. 2
    spread thickly wordnet
  3. 3
    To apply generously upon. often, transitive

    "I slathered my toast with jam."

  4. 4
    To squander. transitive
  5. 5
    To rain. transitive

    "... rain had fallen all night and it was slathering down in sheets now. That didn't add to my good humor none."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide". For the sense "to rain", compare East Frisian sladdern and northern German schladdern ("to rain noisily").

Etymology 2

Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide". For the sense "to rain", compare East Frisian sladdern and northern German schladdern ("to rain noisily").

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