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slaggy, a.|ˈslægɪ|
Also 8 slaggey.
[f. slag n.1 + -y1.]
1. Of the nature of slag; pertaining to or resembling slag.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 266/1 Slateing, is a covering of Houses with a kind of Blew Slaggy Marble. 1757tr. Henckel's Pyritologia 170 A slaggey and stoney body. Ibid. 176 It also often appears slaggy, and run. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 133/2 This is..of a slaggy texture. 1805R. Jameson Min. II. 49 Slaggy Mineral Pitch. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 219 Some of the bones were found adhering to the slaggy lava. 1881Judd Volcanoes ii. 12 Stromboli is a great mass of cinders and slaggy materials.
Comb.1863Ramsay Physical Geogr. 13 An arrangement in slaggy-like layers.
2. slang.
a. Of a person or thing: objectionable, unpleasant, offensive.
1943[see slag n.1 5 a (c)]. 1962R. Cook Crust on its Uppers x. 82 That slaggy basement of yours. 1972R. Quilty Tenth Session i. 20 Some sort of hippie, maybe? No roadie, he could swear to that, having tangled with some real slaggy ones.
b. Of a woman: promiscuous, ‘cheap’; slatternly.
1973H. Miller Open City xiv. 160 The writer and his slaggy girl friend. 1980R. Connolly Sunday Kind of Woman ii. 22 He thought about some of the slaggy models he had known. |