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Slathered vs Slithered - What's the difference?

slathered | slithered |

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)

  • 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

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    slithered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slither)

  • slither

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move about smoothly and from side to side.
  • To slide
  • * 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * slitherlink

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