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SLAP.—Fully; precisely; unreservedly.

"The stwu hit I slap on the yead."

"A vell slap down."

Slap-up is 'excellent' (common).

SLAPE-MOUSE.—The dormouse.

SLAPEY.—Sleepy, applied to fruit which has not much juice. There is a kind of pear called the "slapey pear." The flat taste and want of juice styled "slapey" sometimes arise from decay at the core.

SLAPEY-YEAD.—A term of reproach applied to one who shows little energy.

SLAPPIN.'—Very great; much to be appreciated.

"We shall hev a slappin' lot o' graaypes on our graaype-tree this year."

SLASH.—A blow with a whip; a cut with a knife.

SLASHIN.'—Dashing, large.

"The man had ro-ast bafe vust an' a slashin' gurt plum pudden ater 't."

SLAW-WORM.—The blind worm—deemed venomous.

SLICK.—Completely, thoroughly, entirely.

"That ther awld vixen gin the houns the go-by agin slick."

SLICKUT.—A thin slice.

SLINK.—To drag the hind quarters heavily.

"The dogs hev had hard work to daay, zee how thaay slinks."

SLIP.—A slip of a girl is a girl hardly arrived at womanhood.

A woman's or child's under garment.

A covering for a pillow.

SLIP-ON.—To don quickly.

SLIPPETIN'.—Going along quickly and without noise on treading.

SLIPPY.—Slippery.

To be slippy is to make haste.

SLIP-SHAD.—Untidy; incomplete.

SLIT.—A rent.

"Ooll 'e plaze mend a slit in my kwut."

SLITHERY.—Slippery as from grease.

SLOCKUT.—To commit a petty theft ; to pilfer.