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third-person singular simple present slathers, present participle slathering, simple past and past participle slathered
To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well. examples
(often followed by with) To apply generously upon. examples
To squander. examples
plural slathers
(cooking) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food. examples
Drool (especially if abundant). quotations examples
[The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
1983, Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177
(usually in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity. quotations examples
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.
1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 24, in Rainbow Valley