Slather vs Slither - What's the difference?
slather | slither |
(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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, title= * 1919 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), Rainbow Valley , ch. 24,
To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.
(often followed by with) To apply generously upon.
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
As verbs the difference between slather and slither
is that slather is to spread something thickly on something else; to coat well while slither is to move about smoothly and from side to side.As a noun slather
is a thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.slather
English
Noun
(en noun)- [The river] Ván'' in ''SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
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.}}
- 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.
Anagrams
*slither
English
Verb
(en verb)- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.
