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slithery, a. orig. dial.|ˈslɪðərɪ|
Also slithry, Sc. sclithery, -ie.
[Alteration of sliddery a.]
a. Slippery, in various senses.
1825in Jamieson s.v. Sclitherie. 1861 J. F. Hardy in Peaks, Passes, & Glac. I. 390 The rock..in general..was well covered with snow. This in parts was very dry and slithery. 1884T. Speedy Sport Highl. xix. 375 The ‘sclithery’ rock giving way, we slid down again into the bottom of the ‘rut’. 1902Daily Chron. 4 Sept. 3/2 The Jesuit..was mysterious, elusive, not to say slithery. 1922E. R. Eddison Worm xxvi. 332 With rocks and pits hidden in the heather, and slithery slabs of granite. 1946M. Peake Titus Groan 298 His lordship..was gazing at his daughter with a slithery smile upon his mouth that had once been so finely drawn. 1952L. A. G. Strong Darling Tom i. 12 Against the wall stood four slithery horse-hair chairs. 1975E. Huxley Gallipot Eyes (1976) 168 Oaksey Wood is a morass with yellowish water lying deep in slithery tractor ruts.
b. Comb., as slithery-eyed, slithery-slobbery adjs.
1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia iii. 123 Give me the old, salty way of love. How I am nauseated with sentiment and nobility, the macaroni slithery-slobbery mess of modern adorations. 1977New Yorker 8 Aug. 11/1 He picks out the very lad:..a twin..identical to the slithery-eyed boy destined to grow up into Marty Feldman. |