slag

Etymology
Borrowed from, , from , from , from , from +. Compare, since originally the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering, from , from. Compare also 🇨🇬, from.

See also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; also compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Waste material from a mine.
 * 2) Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
 * 3) * 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, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=J6OJoVd74A&sig=lVvAHphPh5JPjukv23oxtEqYZaA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZpRRUKi1EOiUiAf6yIHACQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 1) Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
 * 2) Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
 * 3) Scoria associated with a volcano.
 * 4)  A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
 * 5) * 1984,, Heart of Oak, 1997, paperback edition, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=HRGAeBkW-Y&sig=p-6qKPA15RncjpQ9tFDdGMSlw3Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=trZQUJXWOouhmQXb5oCACA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 1) * 2002,, The Woman Who Left, 2012, ebook, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=YAP-npnK8H&sig=66JcUDplBbe5ihDlMrGIofo4ZlU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=trZQUJXWOouhmQXb5oCACA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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!’
 * 1)  A coward.
 * 2)  A contemptible person, a scumbag.
 * 3) * 1996,, , Scene 8, 2001, Sarah Kane: Complete Plays, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=wrq-srPNMY&sig=rIIi0JcRzSBU6S40Lqz-pV4p7bE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KHhQULaZMca3iQfX9IDQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 100,
 * Kill him. Kill the royal slag.
 * 1) * 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
 * 1) * 2002,, The Woman Who Left, 2012, ebook, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=YAP-npnK8H&sig=66JcUDplBbe5ihDlMrGIofo4ZlU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=trZQUJXWOouhmQXb5oCACA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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!’
 * 1)  A coward.
 * 2)  A contemptible person, a scumbag.
 * 3) * 1996,, , Scene 8, 2001, Sarah Kane: Complete Plays, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=wrq-srPNMY&sig=rIIi0JcRzSBU6S40Lqz-pV4p7bE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KHhQULaZMca3iQfX9IDQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 100,
 * Kill him. Kill the royal slag.
 * 1) * 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
 * 1) * 1996,, , Scene 8, 2001, Sarah Kane: Complete Plays, |%22slags%22+woman+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=wrq-srPNMY&sig=rIIi0JcRzSBU6S40Lqz-pV4p7bE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KHhQULaZMca3iQfX9IDQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22slag%22|%22slags%22%20woman%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 100,
 * Kill him. Kill the royal slag.
 * 1) * 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

 * see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Translations

 * German: Abraum


 * Arabic: خابث, خباث
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: struska,
 * Danish: slagge
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: escumallo,, escoura
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκωρία
 * Hebrew: סיגים
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: paska
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: scoria
 * Macedonian: згу́ра, џгу́ра
 * Maori: whaipara
 * Norwegian: slagg, sinder
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тро̏ска, шља̏ка, згу̏ра
 * Roman:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ขี้เชื่อม, ขี้ตะกรัน
 * Ukrainian: шлак


 * Bulgarian: застинала лава
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: laavakivi
 * French:
 * Galician: escoura
 * German:, , Schweißschlacke, , Auswurfmaterial, Schlackenstoffe, Lavafetzen, Pyroklastika
 * Icelandic: gjall
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: згу́ра, џгу́ра
 * Maori: rangitoto, kaihau, rahoto
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тро̏ска, шља̏ка, згу̏ра
 * Roman:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: dona fàcil
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: baldreu, galdrana,, bordiona, bagaxa, celenca, lumia, xostra, toallo
 * German:
 * Macedonian: оро́спија
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, puszczalska
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To produce slag.
 * 2)  To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
 * 3)  To reduce to slag.
 * 4)  To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
 * 5)  To make fun of; to take the piss.
 * 6)  To spit.
 * 1)  To make fun of; to take the piss.
 * 2)  To spit.
 * 1)  To spit.

Translations

 * Finnish: tuottaa kuonaa
 * German:
 * Romanian:


 * Finnish:, , puhua pahaa
 * German: herziehen über, schlecht machen

Etymology
From, from , , cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A hit, punch
 * 2) A beat
 * 3) A battle
 * 4) A game.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A blow, knock, strike
 * 2) A stroke, limb movement; a style of movement, notably style of swimming
 * 3) A twist, turn
 * 4) A beat, pulsation
 * 5) A stroke, blow, hit, physical impact
 * 6) A count, occurrence; the striking of a clock
 * 7) A battle, violent confrontation
 * 8)  A ,
 * 9) A strike, fast move
 * 1) A beat, pulsation
 * 2) A stroke, blow, hit, physical impact
 * 3) A count, occurrence; the striking of a clock
 * 4) A battle, violent confrontation
 * 5)  A ,
 * 6) A strike, fast move
 * 1) A count, occurrence; the striking of a clock
 * 2) A battle, violent confrontation
 * 3)  A ,
 * 4) A strike, fast move
 * 1)  A ,
 * 2) A strike, fast move
 * 1)  A ,
 * 2) A strike, fast move
 * 1) A strike, fast move
 * 1) A strike, fast move
 * 1) A strike, fast move

Noun

 * A, ,.
 * A, , stretch of land.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A hit; punch.
 * 2)  A cardiac stroke.
 * 3) A battle between two armies, navies or air forces
 * 4) A kind; sort.
 * 5)  A species.

Etymology
. From, from.

Noun

 * 1) hose, tube a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A beat, stroke, blow an act of hitting, beating, striking.
 * 2)  A beat.

Etymology
From, and (sense 4).

Noun

 * 1) A hit; punch.
 * 2)  A cardiac stroke.
 * 3) A battle between two armies, navies or air forces.
 * 4) A kind; sort.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) a blow, a strike, a punch.
 * 2) a battle.
 * 3)  a stroke
 * 4)  a bilge
 * 1)  a stroke
 * 2)  a bilge
 * 1)  a bilge

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) A type, a kind, a sort.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A hit; punch.
 * 2) A hit of a ball by a bat or a racket.
 * 3) A battle between two armies, navies or air forces
 * 4) A stroke; the striking of a clock
 * 5) stroke; the time when a clock strikes
 * 6)  stroke; a loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
 * 7)  A kind; sort.
 * 8) A while; moment; a short period of time.
 * 9) A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.
 * 10) A lapel
 * 1)  stroke; a loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
 * 2)  A kind; sort.
 * 3) A while; moment; a short period of time.
 * 4) A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.
 * 5) A lapel
 * 1) A while; moment; a short period of time.
 * 2) A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.
 * 3) A lapel
 * 1) A while; moment; a short period of time.
 * 2) A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.
 * 3) A lapel
 * 1) A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.
 * 2) A lapel

Usage notes
The usage notes for also apply for  of slag (except with ett traditionally being considered correct).