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▪ I. ˈslubbering, vbl. n.
[f. slubber v.]
The action of the vb., in various senses.
1582Batman Barth. De P.R. vi. xii. 74 A servant woman is..put to office and worke of travaile, toylyng, and slubbering. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1637) 143 By their slubbering of the Word (for want of study and meditation). 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xi. 238 To paint the face and bodies of themselves and their idolls.., which they call slubbering. 1638Penit. Conf. iii. (1657) 21 A careless debasing and slubbering of the body.
▪ II. ˈslubbering, ppl. a.
[f. slubber v.]
That slubbers; working in a dirty or slovenly manner; showing haste and carelessness.
a1591H. Smith Serm. (1886) I. 314 The Jews abhorred the sacrifice for the slubbering priests. 1594Zepheria ii, My slubbring pencil casts too grosse a matter. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 325 Who ingrosse many pluralities under a non-resident and slubbring dispatch of soules. 1681H. More Expos. Daniel Pref. 17 His Expositions are..so dilute, shallow and slubbering. 1731Fielding Grub St. Op. iii. x, Go, and like a slub'ring Bess howl, Whilst at your griefs I'm quaffing. 1818Sporting Mag. II. 89 A sort of scumming, smearing, slubbering way of sketching. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., A [slovenly] servant is called ‘a slubbering thing’.
Hence ˈslubberingly adv.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxi. 168 Such as..slubberingly patch up some slight and shallow rhime. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 284 The Verse..which he brings to testify his tenet expressely, but, by omitting it slubberingly, bids it say nothing. |