nutty slack en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌnʌti ˈslæk/ (General-American)
- /ˌnʌti ˈslæk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- [-ɾi-] (General-American)
Etymology
From nutty (“containing nuts”) + slack.
Meanings
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(UK, historical, uncountable) A cheap fuel consisting of slack (“coal dust”) and nuts (“small lumps of coal”); unlike other solid fuels it was not rationed during the period after World War II.
Mr. Nabarro asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the calorific value of nutty slack currently being marketed to domestic consumers, ration-free, by the National Coal Board, compared with normal house coals; what quantity of nutty slack is to be available, in total, during the present coal-winter; the market response to date; how much nutty slack it is estimated will be sold this winter; and whether nutty slack is to be a permanent, ration-free feature of our domestic fuel economy.
1953 February 2, Gerald Nabarro, Member of Parliament for Kidderminster, “Nutty Slack”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 510, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, columns 1460–1461:
Translations (2)
mk дро́бен ја́глен (cheap fuel consisting of slack and nuts) · fi hiilipuru (cheap fuel consisting of slack and nuts)