English Explanatory Dictionary

slabby

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a liquid: thick; viscous.
  2. Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.
  3. Rainy, wet. (of weather)
adj
  1. Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
  2. Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.
noun
  1. A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.

Word forms

slabby slabbier slabbiest slabbies

Etymology

From slab (“mud, sludge”) + -y.

Derived words

slabbily slabbiness
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