slatty

adj

1. Slatted, having slats.

   “... slatty wood door. Can only see the roof and garden and a gravel pathway.”

   “... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.”

   “"[…] slatty kind of door." "Damper," Bruce corrected him. "Well, it was also locked."”

2. (dialectal)Dirty.

   “I can imagine an angel named Marjorie- an angel with- "A red nose," Susan put in, "a thin, slatty looking angel."”

   “[…] slatty wench, no longer young, And mostly eyes and ears and tongue, She gallops; joyous and alert To ferret out the latest dirt. February 6, 1942 No Horned Heads Sweet peace eludes the grasp of little v 7 v Have You Met Miss Pry?”

3. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of slaty.

   “[…] stony, slatty Sort of Marl, called by some Slat, and by others Dice-Marl, which must be dug with Pick-ax and Crow, and riseth in great Blocks, as much as two Men can carry.”

   “This is a rich slatty marle […]”

   “[…] in a clayie and slatty countrey, if there be any inlets and passages into the earth by reason of its discontinuity here and there , they are likely enough to be kept open , because such kind of earth is not apt to moulder with wet[…]”