Slather vs Slatier - What's the difference?

slather | slatier |

As a noun slather

is (culinary) a thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.

As a verb slather

is to spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.

As an adjective slatier is

(slaty).

slather

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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:

[The river] Ván'' in ''SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.

(usually, in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers , right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}

* 1919 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), Rainbow Valley , ch. 24,

In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.

Verb

(en verb)

To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.

I slathered jam on my toast.

(often followed by with) To apply generously upon.

I slathered my toast with jam.

Anagrams

slatier

English

Adjective

(head)

(slaty)

slaty

English

Adjective

(er)

Resembling the mineral slate.

* 1933-03 , Clark Ashton Smith, , Weird Tales :

Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.