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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Spotted in some copy I was editing and caught before it appeared in print:
“Join me in designing a cheery email and slathering over the thought of our gastronomic treat in the new year”
A quick search on Google found other examples, including
I remember during the Texas – Ohio St game , he was slathering over Ginn , and talking about how he couldn ’ t believe Texas ’ speed was shutting him down …
www.gamedayers.com/locker_room/fan_boar … topic.php?
and
It’s slightly off-putting to watch grown men in various states of undress slathering over custard and moaning over mouthfuls of sticky-toffee pudding. ...
thestrokes.com/roadjournal.html
but it’s hard to tell if this is a proper eggcorn or just confusion over two similar words with vaguely similar meanings hinting at mess and drool …
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but it’s hard to tell if this is a proper eggcorn or just confusion over two similar words with vaguely similar meanings hinting at mess and drool …
And only 16 years later comes the round tripper, a close relative of the sliver/slither shift, where slither has almost become an acceptable substitute for sliver.
The product came in a nice big jar which is great for scooping out generous amounts of the cream and slavering it on …
i have really bad cellulite and saggy skin and i used dove body cream for a month (absolutely slavering it on) and massaged my skin in …
He was really slavering it on thickly.
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When I see “slaver(ing)” written I have a hard time not pronouncing it SLAY-ver in my mind rather than SLAV-ver, and pawing around in my brain for some connection with slavery. Could one refer to slavvery (= ±“spreading thickly”) if one pronounced it that way?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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