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 Adj. (colloquial).—Here and there; 'all over the shop': also slip-slap and verb.

1721. Centlivre, The Artifice, iii. I ha' found her fingers slip-slap this a-way and that a-way, like a flail upon a wheat-sheaf.

1870. Farjeon, Griff, 105. The dirty, broken bluchers in which Griff's feet slip-slopped constantly.

See Slop.

Slip-thrift. See Slip-gibbet.

Slit, subs. (venery).—1. The female pudendum: see Monosyllable (Halliwell).

1647-8. Herrick, Hesperides, 'Upon Scobble.' Good Sir, make no more cuts i' th' outward skin, One slit's enough to let Adultry in.

2. (old).—A pocket.

12[?]. King Horn [E. E. T. S.], 61. Thu most habbe redi mitte Twenti Marc ine thi slitte.

Slither, verb. (common).—1. To slip; to make away; to smooth; and 3. (American) = to hurry. Also slithery = slippery (q.v.).

1857. Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, II. iv. After getting up three or four feet they came slithering to the ground, barking their arms and faces.

1857. Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xxiv. Gay girls slithered past him, looked round at him, but in vain.

18 Tennyson, Northern Cobbler. Once of a frosty night, I slithered and hurted my huck.

1886. Field, 13 Feb. You could not estimate the distance or direction to which your horse might slither.

1901. Walker, In the Blood, 244. They might 'a' slithered with your goods if you 'adn't been so mighty sharp with your hands.

Slive, verb. (old colloquial).—To sneak or lounge away; to idle. Slive-Andrew = a good-for-nothing; sliverly = artful; sliving = idle. To let slive (American) = to let fly.

1707. Centlivre, Platonick Love, iv. I know her gown agen: I minded her when she sliv'd off. Ibid. (1710), The Man's Bewitched, iii. The sliving baggage will not come to a resolution yet.

1725. Bailey, Erasmus, 41. What are you a sliving about, you drone? You are a year a lighting a candle.

1847. Robb, Squatter Life. As soon as I clapped peeper on him I let sliver, when the varmint dropped.

Slobber, subs. (printers').—Badly distributed ink.

Verb. (colloquial).—1. To kiss effusively. Also as subs. and slabbering.

1583. Stubbes, Amat. Abuses, 114. What bussing, what smouching, and slabbering one of another.

d. 1897. Marshall, Pomes, 36. The amatory slobber which is comforting but low.

2. (colloquial).—To scamp work: also to slobber over.

Slobberdegullion. See Slubberdegullion.

Slobberer, subs. (provincial).—1. A slovenly farmer; and (2) a jobbing tailor (Halliwell).

Slobgollion, subs. (nautical).—'Whaleman's term for an oozy, stringy substance found in sperm oil' (C. Russell).

Slog, subs. (common).—1. A blow; and (2) a bout of fisticuffs. As verb. = (1) to hit, or work hard; (2) to punish (q.v.), to pound (pugilists'), and (3) to tackle a matter seriously. Whence slogging-match = a hard fight or tussle; slogger = (1) a pugilist given to hard hitting, and (2) a