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▪ I. slabby, a.1|ˈslæbɪ|
[f. slab n.2 + -y.]
1. Wet, miry, muddy, slushy, sloppy. Now dial.
a. Of roads, etc. (Common in 17th cent.)
1542Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harl. Misc. (1745) IV. 512 The poore Souldyers..fynding the Way, by which they shuld go, so slabby and slyppery. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 321 The citie is very large and wyde and also very slabby and myrie. 1600Holland Livy xxi. xxxvi. 413 To tumble..upon the slipperie and glassie yce, and the molten slabbie snow. 1690C. Ness Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 418 They oft pass through a strait, long, slabby lane. 1716Gay Trivia ii. 92 When waggish boys the stunted beesom ply To rid the slabby pavement. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 78 Deep or slabby roads. 1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life iv. xxxvii, By stamping close at your side on the slabby pavement. 1825–in dial. glossaries (N. Cy., Northampt., Suff.).
fig.1610Cooke Pope Joane 106 You..make that the ground of your conclusion. Now that is a slabbie ground. 1650H. More Observ. in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 79 This latter is more clean and sober, the other more slabby and fantasticall.
b. Of weather.
1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 291 [It] denotes,..in winter, grievous cold, and snowy slabby weather. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 14, I am only to caution our labourer,..that he do not stir the Ground in over-wet and slabby weather. 1713Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Jan., Very warm slabby weather, but I made a shift to get a walk.
2. Of liquids, etc.: Thick, ropy, viscous.
a1654Selden Table-t. (Arb.) 86 They present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. 1676Wiseman Surg. Treat. ii. iii. 173 In the Cure of an Ulcer with a moist Intemperies slabby and greasy Medicaments are to be forborn. 1725Family Dict. s.v. Tart, You must drain off the Milk, or else the mass will be too slabby. 1810W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXIX. 148 In order to render palatable the bitter herbs.., it was usual..to sprinkle over them a thick slabby sauce. 1865Pall Mall G. 17 June 10 Pawing at the corners of the mouth to free it from thick slabby saliva.
▪ II. slabby, a.2|ˈslæbɪ|
[f. slab n.1]
Of the nature of a slab; covered with slabs.
1853Chamb. Jrnl. XX. 308 It is remarkable for clean, broad, and handsome streets; for slabby terraces and a broad-sweeping beach. 1879Rutley Study Rocks xii. 224 Some of the quartz-trachytes show a fissile, slaty, or slabby structure.
▪ III. slabby, n. N.Z. colloq.|ˈslæbɪ|
[f. slab n.1 2 a.]
A timber worker dealing with slabs of timber.
1907‘G. B. Lancaster’ Tracks We Tread vi. 87 The..clumsiest slabby that lumped in the mill. 1916G. Thornton Wowser v. 72 Barnabas the slabby (the man who wheels away the unused portions of timber). |