10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLAISTER»
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Cenolentus. Lutulentus." Prompt. Parv. SLAIRT, s. A silly dastardly fellow ; a term
used by the fishers of Buckhaven, synon. with Coqf, Cufe. Isl. sliar hebes ; or slor
sordes, also ignavia. To Slairt, v. a. To outdo, to outstrip, ibid. To SLAISTER, v. n.
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The Same . . . Only Different
description, for males at least, but that's what Slaister, Esq., brought to mind when
I welcomed him to the office. He took the proffered chair in a way that suggested
a certain unease and then cast a quizzical eye at the diagnostic machine.
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
SLAIRG, v. G. tr. To smear or bedaub (anything); to put on (paint, paste, etc.)
smeaiily. [Sc. (1776) slairg, (I728) slerg. Cf. G. dialect sehlargeu, schlergeu]
SLAIRK, v. NE, s. int. and tr. = SLORK v. I, 2. [= Dumfries (1825) slerk] SLAISTER,
sb. {1.
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
2 (sentimental) sapsie. sloppy mess kirn, slaister; (of food) plowter. slouch v
sloonge, lootch, s(c)lutter. slovenly adj throuither, throwder NE. slovenly person
guddle, trollop, trai- lep NE; (very messy) midden, slitter, slaister. do something or
work ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To ...
S. To SLAISTKR, Slester, Slyster, v. a. and w. 1. To work in any thing moist or
unctuous, S. 2. To move clumsily through a miry road, S. "There was he wading
up to the kutes in glaur, tlai-trriit' through the deepest part of the road." Slaister
may ...
John Jamieson, John Longmuir, David Donaldson (F. E. I. S.), 1879
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
To SLAISTER, SLYSTER, c. n. 1. To do any thing in an awkward and dirty way, S.
Amiquary. 2. To work in any thing moist or unctuous, S. 3. To move clumsily
through a miry road, S.—Su.G. slack-a, hnmorem sordidum efl'undere. Unctuous
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John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
2 slops slaps, slaister, soss. slop basin slap bowl. sloppy 1 (of food etc) slidderie,
slitterie. 2 (sentimental) sapsie. sloppy food see also slops; slubber. mouthful of
sloppy food sloor NE. sloppy mess kirn; (of food) plowter. slope noun 1 sklent, ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
To SLAISTER, v. n. To do any thing in anawkward and dirty way.] Add; " Ye'll be
for your breakfast, I'se warrant ? hae there's a soup parridge for you— it will set
ye better to be slaisteiing at them and the lapper-milk than middling wi' Mr.
Lovel's ...
SLAISTER, a mess, a slovenly way of doing things. Also a sloven. " He's a reg'lar
slaister." To bedaub, to do anything in a dauby or untidy fashion ; to walk with an
awkward and slovenly gait. To slaister a person is to mess him by giving him a ...
Richard Oliver Heslop, 1894
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Doctor Dunbar, Elsie's trial, and Bell Maitland [3 stories].
I canna bide the slaister, mem.' ' It's yourself that makes the slaister, Bell,'
answered Mrs. Muddleton indignantly. ' I dinna think that, mem ; but at ony rate, I'
m gaun to leave.' ' You ought not to go till you have tried it a little longer. You will
get on ...
