I read the line as ‘slavich’ or ‘slahvish’ at first and then chuckled when I realized the two words are nearly homonyms; that’s why I had to be clever. ;-)
1,459 posted on 10/14/2018 9:19:45 AM PDT by ichabod1
(He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)