slatty
adjEtymology From slat + -y.
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Slatted, having slats.
- ... slatty wood door. Can only see the roof and garden and a gravel pathway.2003 May 1, Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
- ... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.2008 11, Robert D. Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 75:
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- "[…] slatty kind of door." "Damper," Bruce corrected him. "Well, it was also locked."(Can we date this quote?), Chris Bucholz, Severance, Apex Publications, page 144:
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Dialectal Dirty.
- I can imagine an angel named Marjorie- an angel with- "A red nose," Susan put in, "a thin, slatty looking angel."1908, Jacques Futrelle, The Simple Case of Susan, page 21:
- […] slatty wench, no longer young, And mostly eyes and ears and tongue, She gallops; joyous and alert To ferret out the latest dirt. February 6, 1942 No Horned Heads Sweet peace eludes the grasp of little v 7 v Have You Met Miss Pry?2008 05, Bee Lewis, Lewis Bee Lewis, Gems of Yesterday: The Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 7: