Thick, soft mud that was left behind by flowing water, usually alongside riverbeds or shorelines.
Thick, soft mud that was left behind by flowing water, usually alongside riverbeds or shorelines.
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(dialectal, Scotland) Slimy, muddy.
A Scottish dialect adjective describing something slimy, muddy, or covered in that squelchy riverbank muck that gets into your boots. Sleechy perfectly captures the unpleasant texture of tidal mud or waterlogged ground — the sort of surface that grabs your feet and makes horrible sucking noises as you walk. It's a wonderfully expressive word that sounds exactly as gross as the thing it describes. Still found in Scottish coastal and farming communities.
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
(dialectal) To dip a vessel into water to fill it; to scoop up water, as with a bucket.
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(Northern Ireland) A soft, unstable mixture of mud and clay beneath Belfast, which is known for being difficult to build on.
: The physical nature and engineering properties of the sleech have made it desirable to investigate each site before piling.
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