Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wet and dirty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prov. Eng. Wet and dirty; slushy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
  • adjective resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
  • adjective wet, having wet ground, slushy
  • adjective making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
  • adjective darting, running in a zigzag motion
  • adjective of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
  • adjective slushy, uber-romantic

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

slash +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Is this pairing not "slashy", like all the girls say?

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • Not y'all personally, but the current generation of slashers inherited a tradition and shaped it and refined it and evolved it, and we who are slashers, who are within that community, are the sole and unequivocal arbiters of what "slashy" means.

    big gay meta: slash communities and queer fan communities hth_the_first 2008

  • Now, I think they mean to imply that Dean is all butch and overcompensating ... as Karie22 who is not a fan of the slashy-incest implies somwhere below ... and that Sam is sensitive and "girlie."

    Supernatural's Gay Incest Subtext rabid1st 2009

  • Reading Matters 09 getting my quota of slashy lols in Merlin good books, good cheese, good wine, good TV, good friends.

    Happy New Year lili 2009

  • But the queer activist in me sees a sort of dodgy fetishising misrepresentation in much slash -- or in slashy male/male relationships as found in Anne Rice, say -- where male homosexual desire is presented via ciphers as dubious as ... well, the racist trope of the Big Black Buck with a dong down to his knees, there to satisfy the white heroine.

    Fanfiction Hal Duncan 2010

  • Where, oh, where are the slashy Cinderella stories?

    Reading Lord John & The Private Matter rabid1st 2009

  • Reading Matters 09 getting my quota of slashy lols in Merlin good books, good cheese, good wine, good TV, good friends.

    Archive 2009-01-01 lili 2009

  • It's part of human nature, and it would have happened were the community slashy or not.

    Just Past the Horizon: The male space is just better hidden | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • And its slashy as hell ... but I know there wont be an avalanche of Lucien/Raze appearing anytime soon.

    underworld 3. angelsscream 2009

  • She had been talking with Stacia and mentioned she had always wanted to write a novel, explore the slashy fangirl in her.

    And So It Begins Luovien Innoitus 2011

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