A Scottish dialect adjective describing something slimy, muddy, or covered in that squelchy riverbank muck that gets into your boots.
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.
The kids came back from the estuary absolutely filthy, their wellies sleechy from the riverbank.
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Thick, soft mud that was left behind by flowing water, usually alongside riverbeds or shorelines.
(Northern Ireland) A soft, unstable mixture of mud and clay beneath Belfast, which is known for being difficult to build on.
Slutch is a British dialectal term for slush — the wet, slushy mixture of snow and mud or dirty water underfoot. Used primarily in regional British dialects, particularly in the North and Midlands. The word has a satisfyingly onomatopoeic quality: it sounds like what it describes — something unpleasant and sodden that you'd rather not walk through. Largely obsolete outside dialect usage; standard English 'slush' has taken over in most contexts.
(UK, colloquial) slushy or sludgy.
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(dialectal, Scotland) Slimy, muddy.
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