Sekirov Dictionary

slabby

adjective 5
noun 1
forms 3

adjective5

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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. — 1905
Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.
Of a liquid: thick; viscous.
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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. — 1716
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Rainy, wet. (of weather)
- To Virgo, Leo turnes the time, and in a reaking sweate. He buskling vp his burning Mane, doth dry the dropping south. And swallowes vp the slabby cloudes in fyry foming mouth. — 1581

noun1

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(New-Zealand, informal) 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?' — 2018

forms

slabbies · slabbier · slabbiest

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