slater
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsleɪtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsleɪtə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
slater (plural slaters)
- One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
- (Scotland, Australia) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
- A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
- 1901, The Critic, volume 39, page 562:
- Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
one who lays slate
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invertebrate — see woodlouse
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
- Laster, Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse
Scots[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
slater (plural slaters)
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