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Slithery

adjective
1.
Having a slippery surface or quality.  "Slithery eels"






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"Slithery" Quotes from Famous Books



... land, with a crew of Dagoes and Dutchmen, with awful food, without a bath, with a beast of an unventilated rabbit-hutch to sleep in—a wallowing, rolling, tossing, pitching, antiquated parody of a steamer, a little trumpery cockleshell always wet, always shipping seas, always slithery, never a dry place to sit down upon, with people always standing, sixty hours at a time, without sleep, on the bridge to see that she doesn't burst asunder and go down—a floating—when she does float—a floating inferno of misery—here ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Slithery" :   slippery, slippy



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