Pliable ; loose-jointed.
Pliable ; loose-jointed. Cf. slammocky.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, regional) A slattern or awkward person.
A British regional dialect word for a slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman — or more broadly for an awkward, lumbering person. The word has a disapproving edge and is dialectal rather than mainstream slang. Found in older English dialect literature from the Midlands and northern counties.
(dialectal) Loose-jointed, shambling.
(US, dialect) limp; flexible; flimsy.
(UK, US, dialect) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.