slaistery
Slaistery is a Scots dialect adjective with a cluster of related meanings around unctuousness, messy flattery, or the quality of soiling and defiling.
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Slaistery is a Scots dialect adjective with a cluster of related meanings around unctuousness, messy flattery, or the quality of soiling and defiling. It can describe a person who is obsequiously smooth-tongued and insincere, or something that is slimy and contaminating in a moral or physical sense. The word carries a strong sense of disapproval: a slaistery person is one who cannot be trusted, whose compliments leave you feeling smeared rather than praised. Archaic but expressively useful.
He had a slaistery way about him — always agreeing with whoever was in charge, always flattering the right people.
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(Scotland) unctuous.
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(Scotland) defiling.
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- slaister80%
A Scottish dialect word with a cluster of related meanings all circling around messiness and sloppy work. As a noun it means a mess or a muddle — the kind of sticky, wet disorder that's unpleasant to deal with. As a verb it means to bedaub or smear something messily, or to do work in a slovenly, half-hearted way. The word has a squelchy, descriptive quality — it sounds like what it means. Still used in parts of Scotland, it carries vivid colloquial energy for anyone who knows it.
- slaistry78%
(Scotland) Wet, dirty; characteristic of slaister.
- slaister68%
(Scottish) Mess.