slurry

Meanings

Noun

• Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
• Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
• A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
• A thickener.

Verb

• To make a slurry (of some material).
• To apply a slurry (to).

Adjective

• Slurred, tending to slur.

Origin

• Unknown; probably related to Middle English sloor ("thin or fluid mud"); compare slur. From mid-15th c.
• From slur -y.