slabbery

English

Etymology

From slabber +‎ -y.

Adjective

slabbery (comparative more slabbery, superlative most slabbery)

1. Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
   • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):

     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.'

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slabbery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)