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Webster 1913 Edition


Slubber

Slub′ber

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Slubbered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Slubbering
.]
[Cf. Dan.
slubbre
to swallow, to sup up, D.
slobberen
to lap, to slabber. Cf.
Slabber
.]
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.
To do lazily, imperfectly or coarsely; to daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. [Little used and vulgar.]

Definition 2024


slubber

slubber

English

Verb

slubber (third-person singular simple present slubbers, present participle slubbering, simple past and past participle slubbered)

  1. 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.
  2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
    • Milton
      There is no art that hath more [] slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
  3. 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.

Noun

slubber (plural slubbers)

  1. A person who, or a machine which, slubs.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

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