aslither
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Covered (with or in something slithering or slippery).
Example Sentences
- "The gravel was soft and loose in the banks, and we tried to stay near the middle of the road; our rear wheel moved us all aslither, and we rode with our weight off the seat, pushed forward on the foot pedals."
- "One of these big boys came up to me, aslither, on his feet, no skates."
- "Under the vaulted architraves [of the fish and poultry market], the white marble slabs all aslither with hunks and fillets remind you why they used to call it ‘wet fish’."
- "Through February and March our try-pots boiled and the decks were aslither with oil."
- "1985, Martin Collins, “Tour de la Vanoise” in Walt Unsworth (ed.), Classic Walks of the World, The Oxford Illustrated Press, p. 44, If the weather has been warm, this can prove a tiresome stretch, aslither in snow with the consistency of porridge."
Etymology
From a- + slither.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more aslither (comparative)
most aslither (superlative)