slashy
/ˈslæʃi/adjective
slashy is an adjective meaning “Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-L-A-S-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does slashy mean?
adjective
- 1
Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
- 2
resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
- 3
wet, having wet ground, slushy
- 4
making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
- 5
darting, running in a zigzag motion
- 6
of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
- 7
slushy, very romantic
- 8
slangCharacteristic of or related to slash fiction.
It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce slashy?
- /ˈslæʃi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-slashy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of slashy
- slashier comparative
- slashiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is slashy?
Slashy appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does slashy come from?
From slash + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).