different between slasher vs slather

English

Etymology

slash +? -er

Noun

slasher (plural slashers)

1. One who slashes.
2. A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
3. (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence. A slasher movie
4. One who self-injures by cutting.
5. A tool for cutting undergrowth.
6. (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
   • 2002, Christopher Noxon, "What to do about Harry Potter Porn?", The Vancouver Sun, 21 December 2002, page 96:

     With the success of the first film and the third one already in production, Warner Bros. is more likely to greet Harry Potter slashers with more takedown orders than tolerance.

   • 2006, Francesca Coppa, "Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (ed. Kristina Busse), page 49:

     The same aspects that made buddy shows attractive to relationship-oriented fans also made them attractive to slashers; the fact that these shows were set in an era of tight jeans and unbuttoned shirts, and of the loosening of formerly strict standards of acceptable male behavior, only provided additional evidence for homoerotic interpretation.

   • 2014, Kathryn Hill, "'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet", in Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), page 182:

     In other words denied their own voice by a conservative misogynist culture, the original female slashers and vidders needed male characters as surrogates to express their own identity and desires.

Derived terms

• slasher movie
• femslasher

Coordinate terms

• (slash fiction): shipper

Translations

Anagrams

• Haslers, Hassler, Lashers, ashlers, halsers, hassler, lashers

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cine slasher

Etymology

English slasher

Noun

slasher m (plural slashers)

1. slasher (horror subgenre)

Hypernyms

• cine de terror

English

Etymology

Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slæð?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æð?(?)

Verb

slather (third-person singular simple present slathers, present participle slathering, simple past and past participle slathered) (transitive)

1. To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.

2. (often followed by with) To apply generously upon.

3. To squander.

Translations

Noun

slather (plural slathers)

1. (cooking) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.
2. Drool (especially if abundant).
   • 1983, Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177:

     [The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.

3. (usually in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity.
   • 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, ch. 24,

     In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.

Anagrams

• Hartels, Hartles, Stahler, halster, halters, harslet, lathers, thalers