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Slurpier vs Slurrier - What's the difference?

slurpier | slurrier |

As adjectives the difference between slurpier and slurrier

is that slurpier is comparative of slurpy while slurrier is comparative of slurry.

slurpier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (slurpy)

    • slurpy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Sloppy; sounding or feeling like the slurping of liquid.
  • * 2007 , A. L. Niflhaim, Gail McLeod - Christmas in Distress] [http://books.google.com/books?id=9u36ZpkXRcsC&pg=PA85&dq=drooly&lr=&sig=5C5urtEvZZpAYNWEN435HM9KrNE page 85
    • Nestor leans down and pats NJ on the head and NJ jumps right up in his lap and gives him a big slurpy , drooly doggy kiss right on his face.
  • * 1998 , - Animal Acts: Fictions] [http://books.google.com/books?id=s8K7c9_jKd0C&pg=PA55&dq=slurpy&lr=&sig=QMH2Q7yfFnCgIQjoIeXTSvC4m0M page 55
    • She wet her hands in a pan of brown water, then rubbed her palms together, a slurpy sound.

    Derived terms

    * slurpily * slurpiness

    See also

    * slurpee

    slurrier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (slurry)

    • slurry

    English

    Etymology 1

    Unclear; probably related to (etyl) ; compare slur. From mid-15th c. (wikipedia slurry)

    Noun

    (slurries)
  • Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
  • * 1981 , National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products , page 26,
    • While little information is available, it[distillers wet yeast] probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry .
  • * 2002 , R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow , page 81,
    • The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries'. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a ' slurry is possible.
  • * 2006 , Mark A. Shand, The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia , page 146,
    • Magnesium hydroxide slurry' consists of an aqueous suspension of particulate magnesium hydroxide. The principle sources of '''slurry''' are from seawater- or brine-produced magnesium hydroxide, natural brucite, or from the slaking of magnesium oxide powder. Magnesium hydroxide ' slurry is gaining in popularity as a replacement for caustic soda and lime in waste-water treatment applications.
  • * 2011 , Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press staff (translators), Advanced Well Completion Engineering , page 259,
    • The other properties of cement slurry' and set cement are also related closely to cement ' slurry density.
  • (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
  • * 2006 , Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability , page 145,
    • Slurry' tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for ' slurry tailings.
  • (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry , etc.
  • * 2004 , W. H. Rulkens, 11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste'', Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier (editors), ''Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management , page 249,
    • In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry .
    Derived terms
    * coal slurry * meat slurry * slurry pit * slurry wall

    Verb

  • To make a slurry (of some material).
  • To apply a slurry (to).
    • Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slurred, tending to slur.
    • He spoke with a slurry''' voice.'' — ''His voice became progressively '''slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.