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Definition of Slaggy
1. a. Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.
Definition of Slaggy
1. Adjective. (context: of a material) Resembling or containing slag. ¹
2. Adjective. (British Australia New Zealand pejorative of a person) Resembling a slag, especially in behavior. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slaggy
1. resembling slag [adj -GIER, -GIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaggy
Literary usage of Slaggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Earth's History: An Introduction to Modern Geology by Robert Davies Roberts (1893)
"... while the top and bottom of each sheet of lava exhibits a ' strikingly slaggy
aspect which here and there is exaggerated to such an extent that between ..."
2. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (1832)
"Notice regarding a Vein of Asphaltum, or slaggy Mineral Pitch, found imbedded in
Gneiss, in the Hill of Castle Lead, near Ding- ii-aU, in Ross-shire. ..."
3. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"front comes the pile of bedded basalts (i•) with their slaggy lower and upper
... The lower platform of slaggy basalt runs on unbroken under both shales and ..."
4. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"This clay has a very strong resemblance to the slaggy stone of Mansa Chandi, and
some parts of it, that have hardened into stone, are scarcely ..."
5. Travels in the Island of Iceland: During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX by George Steuart Mackenzie (1811)
"Above this, to the top of the mountain, all the beds, except those of tuffa, were
slaggy on the lower surface. 11, 12, Some were amygdaloidal as 11; ..."
6. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"upper surface, with sometimes little or no slaggy character.* These slaggy upper
and lower surfaces are characteristic of modern lavas, and their occurrence ..."
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