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Meaning of slatty | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Slatted, having slats.
  2. Dirty.
    dialectal

Examples

“... slatty wood door. Can only see the roof and garden and a gravel pathway.”
“... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.”
“"[…] slatty kind of door." "Damper," Bruce corrected him. "Well, it was also locked."”
“I can imagine an angel named Marjorie- an angel with- "A red nose," Susan put in, "a thin, slatty looking angel."”
“[…] 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?”
“[…] stony, slatty Sort of Marl, called by some Slat, and by others Dice-Marl, which must be dug with Pick-ax and Crow, and riseth in great Blocks, as much as two Men can carry.”
“This is a rich slatty marle […]”
“[…] in a clayie and slatty countrey, if there be any inlets and passages into the earth by reason of its discontinuity here and there , they are likely enough to be kept open , because such kind of earth is not apt to moulder with wet[…]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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