slabbery

== English == === Etymology === From slabber +‎ -y. === Adjective === slabbery (comparative more slabbery, superlative most slabbery) 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.