When you slather something, you apply or spread a lot of it. So you might slather your hamburger with ketchup, or slather shampoo on your damp head. Before it came to mean "spread liberally" in the nineteenth century, people in parts of England used slather to mean "slip or slide." More @Wikipedia
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