Slithering vs Slathering - What's the difference?
slithering | slathering |
The act of one who slithers.
* 2003 , Sarah Kay, ?Terence Cave, ?Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature (page 263)
As verbs the difference between slithering and slathering
is that slithering is present participle of lang=en while slathering is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between slithering and slathering
is that slithering is the act of one who slithers while slathering is the act of spreading thickly.slithering
English
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(en noun)- Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits