slag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: slags
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Low German slagge, slaggen (“slag, dross”), from Old Saxon *slaggo, from Proto-West Germanic *slaggō, from Proto-Germanic *slaggô, from Proto-Germanic *slagōną (“to strike”) + *-gô (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Low German slāgen (“to strike”), since originally the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering, from *slagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *slagōn. Compare also Old Saxon slegi, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi.
See also Dutch slak, German Schlacke, Swedish slagg; also compare English slay.
Senses: examples: text: After the big village, the scenery had returned to grass and woodland, but this had now given way to ugly mounds of discarded slag. Beyond the slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.
ref: 2011, Vivienne Dockerty, A Woman Undefeated, page 54:
synonyms: goafing
gobbin
mullock
glosses: Waste material from a mine.
examples: text: 2006, Melisa W. Lai, Michele Burns Ewald, Chapter 95: Silver, Martin J. Wonsiewicz, Karen G. Edmonson, Peter J. Boyle (editors), Goldfrank′s Toxicologic Emergencies, 8th Edition, page 1358,
In Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea, dumps of slag (scum formed by molten metal surface oxidation) demonstrate that silver was being separated from lead as early as 5000 BC.
text: He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.
ref: 2009, John Hoerr, Monongahela Dusk, page 255:
synonyms: dross#Noun
glosses: Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
examples: text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: Consequently, mounds of large ‘cakes’ of slag are often found near the smelting sites of the Late Bronze Age, as for example at Ramsau in Austria (Doonan et al. 1996).
ref: 2008, Barbara S. Ottaway, Ben Roberts, “The Emergence of Metalworking”, in Andrew Jones, editor, Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice, page 207:
synonyms: dross
recrement
scoria
glosses: Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
examples: text: During blast furnace operations, the plant operator pays careful attention to the slag chemistry (both composition and variability) as slag behavior is a major consideration in ensuring the quality of hot metal (molten iron).
ref: 2006, Jan R. Prusinski, “44: Slag as a Cementitious Material”, in Joseph F. Lamond, James H. Pielert, editors, Significance of Tests and Properties of Concrete and Concrete-Making Materials, page 517:
text: All these properties are determined by slag composition and its temperature. In basic slags, foaming ability increases as SiO₂ concentration grows.
ref: 2010, Yuri N. Toulouevski, Ilyaz Y. Zinurov, Innovation in Electric Arc Furnaces, Springer, page 16:
synonyms: clinker
glosses: Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
synonyms: clinker
glosses: Scoria associated with a volcano.
examples: text: 1984, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak, 1997, paperback edition, page 260,
We never talked about that, of course; we talked about how we could find a woman in the Dilly, and if the Yanks had taken them all, how we could always resort to the peroxided older slags who hung out around the side doors to Waterloo station and did knee tremblers for the Yanks.
text: Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft? Stay tuned.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 252:
text: 2002, Josephine Cox, The Woman Who Left, 2012, ebook, unnumbered page,
‘Slag! Wait till I tell Jacob what we′ve been doing – and I will, you mark my words! He′ll want nowt to do with you then, will he, eh? He′ll see you for what you really are. A cheap and nasty little bitch!’
text: ‘[…]He was a lovely man but, when I told him I wanted to continue swinging, he freaked out and called me a slag.’
ref: 2008, Ashley Lister, Swingers - Female Confidential, page 31:
text: ‘[…]To the lady that came in to my coffee shop today and ripped on me and my fellow employees for being too slow: eat shit, you miserable slag!’
ref: 2010, The Coast, Halifax, Canada:
text: Soph, yeah, you can't murk me / You're a slag, riddled with STDs
ref: 2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:
synonyms: word: hussy
word: skank
word: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise.
word: 304
word: alley cat
word: alleycat
word: amorette
word: amoret
word: amorosa
word: article
word: Athanasian wench
word: blowsabella
word: bop
word: chippy
word: cocotte
word: cockslut
word: cockwhore
word: crumpet
word: cum dumpster
word: cum guzzler
word: cumhole
word: cumslut
word: cumwhore
word: Cyprian
word: demimondaine
word: doxy
word: drab
word: eager beaver
word: Essex girl
word: flirt-gill
word: floogy
word: floosie
word: floosy
word: floozie
word: floozy
word: fornicator
word: fornicatour
word: fornicatress
word: fornicatrix
word: fuckstress
word: Fulham virgin
word: geebag
word: giglot
word: gillian
word: gill
word: good-time girl
word: grim
word: grisette
word: harlot
word: ho bag
word: ho-bag
word: hoe bag
word: hoe-bag
word: hoe
word: hoochie mama
word: hoochie
word: hood rat
word: ho
word: hussy
word: jade
word: jay
word: jillflirt
word: lady of light virtue
word: LBFM
word: light-o'-love
word: light-of-love
word: lightskirt
word: little brown fucking machine
word: loose woman
word: lorette
word: mab
word: manizer
word: minx
word: moll
word: mort wap-apace
word: nymphomaniac
word: painted Jezebel
word: puta
word: puzzel
word: quean
word: Quicumque vult
word: quiff
word: rig
word: scag
word: scrubber
word: skank
word: skettle
word: sket
word: skit
word: slag
word: slapper
word: slattern
word: sloven
word: slutbag
word: slut
word: stale
word: streel
word: strumpet
word: sweet cheeks
word: tartlet
word: tart
word: thotty
word: thot
word: town bicycle
word: town bike
word: tramp
word: treddle
word: trollop
word: trull
word: village bicycle
word: village bike
word: wagon
word: waistcoateer
word: wanton
word: wench
word: whore
glosses: A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
synonyms: word: chicken
word: quakebuttock
word: bottler
word: caitiff
word: candy-ass
word: candy-arse
word: coistril
word: coward
word: chicken
word: chicken liver
word: chickenshit
word: cocktail
word: cowardy custard
word: craven
word: dog
word: fraidy cat
word: funker
word: gutless wonder
word: invertebrate
word: jessie
word: lizard
word: milquetoast
word: nancy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: nidget
word: niding
word: nithing
word: piece of crap
word: piece of shit
word: pisspants
word: pullet
word: punk
word: pussy
word: pussyhole
word: quiche-eater
word: quakebreech
word: quakebuttock
word: recreant
word: scaredy cat
word: scaredy pants
word: shithouse
word: sissy
word: slag
word: sluggard
word: snool
word: sook
word: weak sister
word: wheyface
word: yellow belly
word: yellow back
glosses: A coward.
examples: text: The writers took it for granted that England, with its working class composed of slags, purple-nosed losers, and animals fed on pinball, pornography and junk-food, was disintegrating into terminal class-struggle.
ref: 1990, Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 207:
text: 1996, Sarah Kane, Phaedra′s Love, Scene 8, 2001, Sarah Kane: Complete Plays, page 100,
Kill him. Kill the royal slag.
text: 2012, Danny Dyer, tweet, quoted by Alexis Petridis, "Danny Dyer: why them 9/11 slags are freaking his nut", The Guardian
Can't believe it's been nearly 11 years since them slags smashed into the twin towers
synonyms: word: arsehole
word: prick
word: arsehole
word: ass
word: assface
word: asshat
word: asshole
word: asswipe
word: bastard
word: bitch
word: blackguard
word: blaggard
word: buttlicker
word: buttmunch
word: carrion
word: cockhead
word: cocklicker
word: cocksucker
word: cowson
word: crud
word: cunt
word: dick
word: dickhead
word: dickwad
word: dickweed
word: dipshit
word: douche
word: douchebag
word: douchecanoe
word: douchewagon
word: earthworm
word: fribble
word: fucker
word: fuckface
word: fuckhead
word: fuckstain
word: fucktard
word: git
word: heel
word: hilding
word: insect
word: jackass
word: jerk
word: loser
word: louse
word: mahfugga
word: mongrel
word: motherfucker
word: paskudnyak
word: pigwidgeon
word: pigfucker
word: prick
word: queef
word: raasclaat
word: ratfink
word: schmuck
word: scrub
word: scut
word: sewer rat
word: sheep-biter
word: shit
word: shitbird
word: shitehawk
word: shitface
word: shithead
word: skate
word: slag
word: son of a bitch
word: son of a gun
word: son of a whore
word: stinker
word: swine
word: turdball
word: twattock
word: wankpuffin
word: whoreson
word: worm
word: yutz
glosses: A contemptible person, a scumbag.
Derived terms: electroslag
slagbag
slaggy
slag heap
slagless
slaglike
slag tag