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slather
[ slath-er ]
verb (used with object)
- to spread or apply thickly:
to slather butter on toast.
- to spread something thickly on (usually followed by with ):
to slather toast with butter.
- to spend or use lavishly.
noun
- Often slathers. a generous amount:
slathers of money.
slather
/ ˈslæðə /
noun
- informal.usually plural a large quantity
- open slather slang.a situation in which there are no restrictions; free-for-all
verb
- to squander or waste
- to spread thickly or lavishly
Word History and Origins
Origin of slather1
Word History and Origins
Origin of slather1
Idioms and Phrases
- open slather, Australian. complete freedom.
Example Sentences
It’s disputed history, for one thing, which means it unnecessarily slathers genre suspense on an already overwrought, cookie-cutter and ideologically ultra-confident biography.
It’s an alternately tender and forbidding set of electronic rock jams slathered with digital effects and suffused with thoughts of collapse both personal and political.
Just make sure to defrost your lobster in the fridge overnight before coating it in mayo or slathering it in hot, melted butter.
She quickly moved on to paint, letting her emotions out in a flood of color and movement and slathering her canvases with texture.
We wait until the cool air of the morning or evening to exercise, dust off our biggest water bottle and slather ourselves in SPF 75.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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