slatty

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adjective

Slatted, having slats.

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Meanings

slatty1

adjective
  1. Slatted, having slats.

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

    2003 May 1, Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN
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    ... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.

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

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

    (Can we date this quote?), Chris Bucholz, Severance, Apex Publications, page 144
  2. dialectalDirty.

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

    1908, Jacques Futrelle, The Simple Case of Susan, page 21
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    […] 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?

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

slatty2

adjective
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of slaty.

    This is a rich slatty marle […]

    1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, Architectural, Agricultural, Commercial, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, page 124
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    […] 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.

    1738, Thomas Cox, Staffordshire. Warwickshire, page 91

    […] 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[…]

    1884, Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, page 253

Origin

From slat + -y.

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