slabbery

English

Etymology

From slabber +‎ -y.

Adjective

slabbery (comparative more slabbery, superlative most slabbery)

1. Like, or covered with, slobber; 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.'

References

• “slabbery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.