slaggyadj.
/ˈslaɡi/, U.S. /ˈslæɡi/ 1. Of the nature of or resembling slag (slag n.1 1b, 2); containing much slag.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [adjective] > of nature of slag
drossy1599
slaggy1688
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] > volcanic > lava > scoria
scorious1646
slaggy1688
scoriaceous1777
scoriform1794
scorified1815
scoriated1843
scoriaca1849
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 266/1 Slateing, is a covering of Houses with a kind of Blew Slaggy Marble.
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia x. 176 Here and there, internally, it [sc. a form of arsenic in a furnace] also often appears slaggy, and run.
1881 J. W. Judd Volcanoes ii. 12 Stromboli is a great mass of cinders and slaggy materials.
1922 Mining & Metall. May 29/1 A dirty, slaggy furnace may result in gassing the metal by retarding the heating.
2013 H. Mytum Monumentality Later Prehist. xii. 231 At some point one part of the gateway suffered high temperature burning, creating slaggy material from the shale.
2.
a. British colloquial. Of a person or thing: contemptible, disreputable; dirty, rough; unpleasant, offensive.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > [adjective]
bysenc1375
offensivea1548
nasty1548
beastly1584
whelpish1586
heathenish1592
viperous1593
vermin1602
verminousc1616
unchristian1630
verminian1640
rancida1646
verminly1653
spider-like1655
exceptionable1691
skunky1842
slaggy1943
schmucky1952
grotty1964
grody1965
1943 W. Buchanan-Taylor Shake it Again xxi. 199 It seemed slaggy to me. (A slag is a person who is not much bottle—not much good;..for whom you have no respect or time.)
1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers x. 82 That slaggy basement of yours.
1972 R. Quilty Tenth Session i. 20 Some sort of hippie, maybe? No roadie, he could swear to that, having tangled with some real slaggy ones.
1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues iv. 140 You see, policemen don't like ‘slaggy people’, whether they're Gypsies, Irish tinkers—people who are rubbish, whatever colour they are.
2001 P. Hayden Last Wave (2003) 159 I don't normally go near the public [bar]—I hate it, it's always full of slaggy old bastards who reek like old dogs.
b. colloquial (chiefly British). Of a woman: lewd, sexually promiscuous. Of a woman's clothing, etc.: provocative, revealing, tarty.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > unchaste or sexually compliant (of women)
strumpeta1382
jadish1573
comingc1576
short heeled1591
loose in the hilts1598
loose-legged1598
loose-tailed1598
light-tailed1600
overscutched1600
stuprous1603
light-skirted1607
brothelly1608
light-heeled1611
wagtailed1648
loose-hilteda1652
feather-heeleda1674
loose-gowneda1717
frank1744
shake-tail1782
(a woman) of a certain description1803
hetaeric1868
round-heeled1926
floozy?1930
trampy1944
slack1951
slaggy1973
1973 H. Miller Open City xiv. 160 The writer and his slaggy girl friend.
1980 R. Connolly Sunday Kind of Woman ii. 22 He thought about some of the slaggy models he had known.
2000 Mirror (Nexis) 20 May 21 Not bothered about what they've done as long as you're gettin' the cash to pay for yer slaggy outfits an' tacky highlights?
2009 Times 6 June 22/3 I think it's meant to be a nod to fetish, but the effect is to make the wearer..look as desperate and slaggy as a pole dancer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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