Slake, C, a light smear as of grease, etc.
“Let’s tak’ slake an’ slake aboot till it’s done.”
Said in licking out a treacle pot.
Slape, C, slippery.
“I mun tell her fadder when I see him—she’s gittin’ varra slape,” old John Howe of Branthwaite Hall called out when he witnessed, by chance, a meeting of sweethearts on a lonely road.
Slare, C, to walk slowly.
“He may be a sharp worker, but he’s a slarin’ walker.”
Said by a farmer’s wife of a new come man servant.
Slashy, C, sloppy.
“It was beginnin’ to thowe, an’ was varra slashy an’ cāld.”