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slaggy

slaggy

8.9
Covered with rough stony waste left after making metal
  • adjective
  • /ˈslæɡi/
  • Specialized
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  • The landscape was dotted with slaggy hills, remnants of an old mining operation.

Examples

  • After the furnace cooled, the workers noticed the slaggy residue left behind on the floor.

  • I was sure when I set out the next day after work that when I got to the hospital, one of the slaggy nurses would tell me Lance had gone during the night.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The construction site was filled with slaggy debris from the smelting process.

How Covered

encrusted
1 5.8
slaggy
  • Specialized
8.9
coated
1 3.4
stained
1 2.6
clean
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

slaggy positive

Morphology

slaggy = slag (transparent) = slag + y

Formed by the regular adjective-making suffix '-y' meaning 'covered with or resembling slag', so the meaning is directly predictable from 'slag'.

Etymology

Slaggy comes from the word slag, the stony waste left after metal is made. So something slaggy is 'covered with' or 'like' that rough, rocky waste.