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Slattery

adj, name

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    rainy; wet; sloppy UK, dialectal
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Slatara (“descendant of Slatra”), a byname meaning "strong, robust, bold".

Etymology 2

From slatter (“to spill, splash, slop”) + -y.

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