slag

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. Waste material from a mine.
2. Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
3. Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
4. Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
5. Scoria associated with a volcano.
6. (slang) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
7. A coward.
8. A contemptible person, a scumbag.

Verb

1. To produce slag.
2. To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
3. To reduce to slag.
4. (slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
5. (slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
6. (slang) To spit.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/slæɡ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.
See also Dutch slak, German Schlacke, Swedish slagg; also compare English slay.