Slathered vs Slithered - What's the difference?
slathered | slithered |
(slather)
(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.
(slither)
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
As verbs the difference between slathered and slithered
is that slathered is past tense of slather while slithered is past tense of slither.slathered
English
Verb
(head)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
*slithered
English
Verb
(head)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.