slag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: slags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Waste material from a mine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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).
gloss: Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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).
All these properties are determined by slag composition and its temperature. In basic slags, foaming ability increases as SiO₂ concentration grows.
gloss: Scoria associated with a volcano.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft? Stay tuned.
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!’
‘[…]He was a lovely man but, when I told him I wanted to continue swinging, he freaked out and called me a slag.’
‘[…]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!’
Soph, yeah, you can't murk me / You're a slag, riddled with STDs
gloss: A coward.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
dated
derogatory
uncountable
gloss: A contemptible person, a scumbag.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
Ireland
UK
countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: 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.
The sycophantic slags all say / "I knew him first, and I knew him well"
Kill him. Kill the royal slag.
Can't believe it's been nearly 11 years since them slags smashed into the twin towers
gloss: To produce slag.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To reduce to slag.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: If you slag off the other person, then—to the extent that your child identifies with that person as their parent—you are slagging off a part of them.
Rather than wait for her to start slagging my mother, I would disappear for a couple of days and inevitably, because I was getting no love at home, I began to stray once again.
gloss: To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
slang
transitive
gloss: To spit.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
intransitive
slang
Derived words: electroslag
manslag
slagbag
slagfest
slaggable
slaggy
slag heap
slagless
slaglike
slag tag
slagger
slag about
slagging rag
slag off
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