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▪ I. † ˈslabbery, n. Obs.—1 [f. slabber n.1 or v.] fig. An outpouring of abuse.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 134 She..calls mee rampant beast in formidable hide, with I wot not what other Getulian slabberies. ▪ II. slabbery, a. Now chiefly dial.|ˈslæbərɪ| [f. slabber n.1 or v. Cf. LG. slabbrig, G. schlabb(e)rig.] Sloppy, slabby, slushy.
1600Holland Livy xxi. xxxvi. 413 They were faine to go upon the bare yce underneath, and in the slabberie snow⁓broth. 1654R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 95 The sudden rain having rendred the ways so slabbery, and me so dirty. 1711Swift Jrnl. Stella 31 Dec., Our frost is broken,..and it is very slabbery. 1874T. Taylor Leic. Sq. viii. 177 Hard frost was passing into ‘slabbery’ thaw. |