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verb (used with object)
1.
to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
2.
to spread something thickly on (usually followed by with): to slather toast with butter.
3.
to spend or use lavishly.
noun
4.
Often, slathers. a generous amount: slathers of money.
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5.
open slather, Australian. complete freedom.
Origin:
1810–20, in sense “to slip, slide”; origin uncertain
1810–20, in sense “to slip, slide”; origin uncertain
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Word Origin & History
slather
"spread liberally," 1866 (in Mark Twain), from a noun meaning "large amount" (usually as plural, slathers), first attested 1857; a dialectal word of uncertain origin, perhaps from Ir. sliotar.
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