slattyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

slatty

1. Slatted, having slats.
   • 2003 May 1, Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:

     ... slatty wood door. Can only see the roof and garden and a gravel pathway.

   • 2008 11, Robert D. Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 75:

     ... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Chris Bucholz, Severance, Apex Publications, page 144:

     " […] slatty kind of door." "Damper," Bruce corrected him. "Well, it was also locked."

2. (dialectal) Dirty.
   • 1908, Jacques Futrelle, The Simple Case of Susan, page 21:

     I can imagine an angel named Marjorie- an angel with- "A red nose," Susan put in, "a thin, slatty looking angel."

   • 2008 05, Bee Lewis, Lewis Bee Lewis, Gems of Yesterday: The Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 7:

     […] slatty wench, no longer young, And mostly eyes and ears and tongue, She gallops; joyous and alert To ferret out the latest dirt. February 6, 1942 No Horned Heads Sweet peace eludes the grasp of little v 7 v Have You Met Miss Pry?

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形容詞

slatty

1. Obsolete form of slaty.
   • 1738, Thomas Cox, Staffordshire. Warwickshire, page 91:

     […] stony, slatty Sort of Marl, called by some Slat, and by others Dice-Marl, which must be dug with Pick-ax and Crow, and riseth in great Blocks, as much as two Men can carry.

   • 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, Architectural, Agricultural, Commercial, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, page 124:

     This is a rich slatty marle […]

   • 1884, Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, page 253:

     […] in a clayie and slatty countrey, if there be any inlets and passages into the earth by reason of its discontinuity here and there , they are likely enough to be kept open , because such kind of earth is not apt to moulder with wet […]