Slatter vs Slather - What's the difference?
slatter | slather |
To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
To be wasteful.
(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.
As verbs the difference between slatter and slather
is that slatter is to be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness while slather is to spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.As a noun slather is
a thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.slatter
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Verb
(en verb)- (Ray)
slather
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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.