Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaister
Literary usage of Slaister
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"slaister, a mess, a slovenly way of doing things. Also a sloven. " He's a reg'lar
slaister." To bedaub, to do anything in a dauby or untidy fashion ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"A small portion of any thing, especially food, taken in a dirty way, so as to
bedaub one's clothes, &c. S. To slaister ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"slaister, a mess, a slovenly way of doing things. Also a sloven. " He's a reg'lar
slaister." To bedaub, to do anything in a dauby or untidy fashion ..."
4. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"To slaister, vn To do any thing in an awkward and dirty way.] Add ; 2. To work
in any thing moist or unctuous, S.] Add, as sense 3. To move clumsily through ..."
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