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slabbery en · ADJ

Etymology

From slabber + -y.

Meanings

1. Like, or covered with, slobber; slippery; sloppy.
   • Later in the day Dunlop told Cal to muck out the byre and because it was something he could do he went at it with a will. As he scraped and shovelled the slabbery dung he remembered: 'For too long the Catholics of Ulster have been the hewers of wood and the drawers of water.' 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)

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