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Definition of Slithery

1. Adjective. Having a slippery surface or quality. "Slithery eels"

Definition of Slithery

1. Adjective. Describing something that slithers, that moves like a snake. ¹

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Definition of Slithery

1. slippery [adj] - See also: slippery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slithery

Literary usage of Slithery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club by Alpine Club (London, England), Edward Shirley Kennedy (1862)
"This in parts was very dry and slithery*, and * I have been in the habit of using the word ... Mr. Editor tells me that slithery is only a corruption of ..."

2. Whistle-binkie: A Collection of Songs for the Social Circle by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson (1890)
"We'll nae mair think o' the slithery rink, Nor the merry soun " Tee high," Nor ... We maunna think o' the slithery rink, Nor of hurras a volley; ..."

3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"... over slippery surfaces or slimy substances and of general looseness or unsteadiness of gait or conduct, as in E. slippery, our slithery, slithering. ..."

4. Enlarged Practice-book in English Composition by Alfred Marshall Hitchcock (1909)
"As they cross the street (or canal), a cart passes splashing mud and water over them, and so confusing a bicycler that his wheel slips on the slithery ..."

5. Daily Lesson Plans: A Teachers' Manual by Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix (1909)
"As they cross the street (or canal), a cart passes splashing mud and water over them, and so confusing a bicycler that his wheel slips on the slithery ..."

6. Whistle-Binkie: Or, The Piper of the Party: Being a Collection of Songs for by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson (1878)
"We'll nae mair think o' the slithery rink, Nor the merry soun' '' Tee high," Nor ... We maunna think o' the slithery rink, Nor of hurras ..."

7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"... adj., var. of ' slithery,' slippery ; muddy. Slip-coat cheese, sb. a cream-cheese like a thin Cottenham. Sprag, va to stop a waggon with a spar of wood. ..."

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