Slather vs Lather - What's the difference?
slather | lather |
(culinary) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.
Drool (especially if abundant).
* 1983 , Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177:
(usually, in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity.
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To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.
(often followed by with) To apply generously upon.
The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
A state of agitation.
To cover with lather.
To beat or whip.
To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
In transitive terms the difference between lather and slather
is that lather is to beat or whip while slather is to spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.slather
English
Noun
(en noun)- [The river] Ván'' in ''SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
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- In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.
Verb
(en verb)- I slathered jam on my toast.
- I slathered my toast with jam.