slabby

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a liquid

   Of a liquid: thick; viscous.

2. 2

   Of a surface

   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.
3. 3

   Rainy, wet. (of weather)

   • […] I am only to caution our labourer as to the present work, that he do not stir the ground in over-wet and slabby weather […]
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   1. 4

      Composed of slabs

      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.
      • He was big and pink and slabby with muscle, but not very hairy, for a white man.
      • The papers were full yesterday morning, you see, of the iPad. […] a million fidget-fingered twits were salivating for the chance to show off their slabby electro-tablets […]
   2. 5

      Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant…

      Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.

   3. 6

      A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.

      • 'My husband worked in a sawmill,' said Gran. […] 'And his brother. Slabbies, both of them. What sort of work was that for men with brains?'

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