Slather

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)

Full definition of slather

Noun

1. (culinary) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.
2. Drool especially if abundant.
• 1983, Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177:river Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
3. (usually in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 1, 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.
• 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, ch. 24,In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.

Verb

1. (transitive) To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.I slathered jam on my toast.
2. (transitive, often followed by with) To apply generously upon.I slathered my toast with jam.

Anagrams

• halster, halters, harslet, lathers, thalers