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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SLAP, n.³ Also slaup, slawp; ¶slab-. Sc. forms and usages of Eng. slop, a wet soggy substance, dregs, dirty water, etc. See P.L.D. § 54. [slɑp, slǫp]

1. As in Eng. Hence slappy, wet, sopping, besplashed. Combs. slap-basin, -bowl, a slop-basin, for tea, etc. (Sc. 1812 W. Angus Eng. Grammar 336).Sc. 1748 Caled. Mercury (21 March):
Slap Basons, Sugar-boxes and Coffee cups.Sc. 1775 Session Papers, Writers Gsw. v. Angus Proof 36:
Two china tea-pots, and two stands, milk-pot and slab-bowl.Rnf. 1813 E. Picken Poems I. 124:
The vera slaps that stegh our wames.Sc. 1816 Scott Antiquary xxxvi.:
[She] was like to hae toomed it a' into the slap bason.Sc. 1849 A. Bell Melodies 45:
Then aff we pu' his slappy duds, An' busk him dry and clean.Bwk. 1912 J. Burleigh Ednam 146:
I thocht ye was a' drooned in the slap bowl.

2. A sloven, a careless or dirty person (wm.Sc., Gall. 1970). Hence slaupie, slawpie, adj., of persons: indolent, slovenly, sluttish (n.Sc. 1808 Jam., a slaupie queyn).Gall. 1897 Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 103:
She's a dirty wee slap, she wadna come in.