slather

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food. transitive
  2. Drool (especially if abundant). transitive
    — [The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
  3. A generous or abundant quantity. plural-normally,transitive
    — Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
动词 v.
  1. To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well. transitive
    — I slathered jam on my toast.
  2. To apply generously upon. often,transitive
    — I slathered my toast with jam.
  3. To squander. transitive
  4. To rain. transitive
    — ... rain had fallen all night and it was slathering down in sheets now. That didn't add to my good humor none.

词形变化

slathers present,singular,third-person slathering participle,present slathered participle,past slathered past slathers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
beslather open slather

词源

词源 1
Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide".
For the sense "to rain", compare East Frisian sladdern and northern German schladdern ("to rain noisily").
词源 2
Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide".
For the sense "to rain", compare East Frisian sladdern and northern German schladdern ("to rain noisily").
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