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slobbery, a.|ˈslɒbərɪ|
Also 4–6 slobery.
[f. slobber n. or v. Cf. MDu. slobberich, Du. dial. slobberig.]
1. Characterized by slobber or slobbering; disagreeably wet, slimy, or dirty.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.), An olde hounde is ofte slowe and slobery. 1541R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. 96 b, Lykewyse no more do I alowe fylthy and slobery rayment. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. v. 13, I will sell my Dukedome To buy a slobbry and a durtie Farme. 1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Jan., The weather had given a little, as you women call it, so it was something slobbery. 1712Ibid. 18 Dec., We have terrible snowy slobbery weather. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ix, A watery, pulpy, slobbery freshman and new-comer in this Planet. 1848Walsh Aristophanes, Clouds i. i, Slobbery kisses, Profusion, gluttony and Venus'es. 1887W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. 27 Sucking an orange in a loud slobbery fashion.
2. Of a soft, yielding texture.
1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 178 You keep rugging at the lang slobbery worsted till it comes aff.
3. Slovenly, careless.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. ii. (1872) II. 406 His continual haste, and slobbery manner of working up those Hundred and odd volumes of his. 1881Leic. Gloss. s.v., A very slobbery job, John. |