different between slater vs slatier

English

Etymology

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sle?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sle?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

slater (plural slaters)

1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
2. Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
   • 1901, The Critic (volume 39, page 562)

     Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.

Translations

See also

• butcher boy
• sowbug
• woodlouse
• sai bug
• saisai gnat

Anagrams

• Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

English

Adjective

slatier

1. comparative form of slaty: more slaty

Anagrams

• A-lister, Altiers, Lasiter, Raelist, airtels, railest, realist, retails, saltier, saltire, tailers