slaister

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"Ay, and are you at the painting trade yet?" said Meg; "an unco slaister ye used to make with it lang syne."

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  1. Dirty, slovenly, or slobbery work; a mess. “Are you at the painting trade yet?” said Meg; “an unco slaister ye used to make with it lang syne,” Scott, St. Ronan's Well, ii.
  2. A slobbery mass or mess. The wine! … if ever we were to get good o 't, it was by taking it naked, and no wi' your sugar and your slaisters—I wish, for ane, I had ne'er kend the sour smack o't. Scott, St, Ronan's Well, xxxii.
  3. To bedaub.
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  1. Prob. ult. (with interchange of sk and st) from Swedish slaska, dash with water (slask, wet), =Danish slaske, dabble, paddle: see slashy, and cf. slosh, slush.
  2. from slaister, n.
 

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