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Webster 1913 Edition
Slubber
Slub′ber
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Slubbered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slubbering
.] 1.
To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
Slubber
not business for my sake. Shakespeare
2.
To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
There is no art that hath more . . .
slubbered
with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton.
Slub′ber
,Noun.
A slubbing machine.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slubber
SLUB'BER
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
slubber
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.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act 2, scene 8,
- Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
- But stay the very riping of the time.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act 2, 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:
Noun
slubber (plural slubbers)
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)