Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To produce slag.

    convert into slag

  2. (intransitive)To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

  3. (transitive)To reduce to slag.

  4. (UK, slang, transitive)To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).

    herziehen über, schlecht machen

  5. (Ireland, slang, transitive)To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).

    verschlacken

  6. (Australia, intransitive, slang)To spit.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. She's always slagging me off.

    Вона завжди обливає мене брудом. — deniko

    ruОна вечно меня поносит. — marafon

    deSie lästert immer über mich. — Esperantostern

  2. Due to improper procedures, the foundry had an excess of slag in the crucible.

  3. Stop slagging off my brilliant idea, it's not naive at all!

    deHör auf, meine geniale Idee totzureden, das ist gar nicht naiv! — MUIRIEL

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  4. The tabloids love to slag off celebrities for the slightest misstep, often blowing things out of proportion.

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to talk badly about someone; to denigrate someone:
to make slag:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle Low German slagge, slaggen (“slag, dross”), from Old Saxon *slaggo, f

Borrowed from Middle Low German slagge, slaggen (“slag, dross”), from Old Saxon *slaggo, from Proto-West Germanic *slaggō, from Proto-Germanic *slaggô, from Proto-Germanic *slagōną (“to strike”) + *-gô (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Low German slāgen (“to strike”), since originally the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering, from *slagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *slagōn. Compare also Old Saxon slegi, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi.

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Forms

slags, slagging, slagged, slagged
Base formslag · to slag
3rd person singularslags
Present participleslagging
Past simpleslagged
Past participleslagged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyslag
he, she, itslags

Past simpleLesson

all personsslagged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave slagged
he, she, ithas slagged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill slag

Synonyms

117 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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