slubber
English
Verb
slubber (third-person singular simple present slubbers, present participle slubbering, simple past and past participle slubbered)
- To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 8
- [...] he [Antonio] answer'd, "Do not so;
- Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
- But stay the very riping of the time;
- [...]
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 8
- To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
- Milton
- There is no art that hath more […] slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
- Milton
- To slobber.
- 1914, Jack London, Mutiny of the Elsinore, chapter 33:
- It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber.
- 1914, Jack London, Mutiny of the Elsinore, chapter 33:
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
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