slaggy

[ slag-ee ]

adjective

, slag·gi·er, slag·gi·est.

1. of, relating to, or like slag.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slaggy¹

First recorded in 1680–90; slag ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Sal was boaty and wore pearls, “but I was a bit more Slaggy Bev,” she says.

From The Guardian

Silently and carefully we travelled on over the broad masses of slaggy lava of former years, along which a narrow horse-path had been worn; and ever and anon we heard the distant booming in the crater at the summit, and caught sight of fresh gleams of light as we took some turning which brought the glowing peak into view.

From Project Gutenberg

This was what happened during the eruption, and the result after a few days was that the cone was a little higher, with a fresh layer of rough slaggy scori� on its slopes, and that on the side of the mountain behind the Hermitage a new lava stream was added to the many which have flowed there of late years.

From Project Gutenberg

The vapours in the sky would rain down and become less dense overhead; great slaggy cakes of solidifying rock would appear upon the surface of the molten sea, and sink under it, to be replaced by other floating masses.

From Project Gutenberg

The black slaggy bottom of the huge crater, which generally reposed in tranquil peace like a calm sea, just broken here and there by fiery fissures, was now transformed into one bubbling mass of flame and vapour, all alive with a horrible livid glare, that lit up its seething and blazing billows with an awful distinctness.

From Project Gutenberg