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slawp

verb · Dialect

A word that sounds as slippery and unpleasant as the act it describes.

To behave in a slovenly or base, cringing manner.

In the wild

“He would slawp about the house whenever he needed a favor from his father.”

Origin

A regional term recorded in Northern English dialect dictionaries for base or servile behavior.

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