slubberingn.
The action of the verb, in various senses.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness > action of
slubbering1582
slobbering1649
scambling1659
skirting1687
steamboating1826
scamping1862
slur1882
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > smearing or spreading with a substance
daubing1393
laying1496
gumming1580
slubbering1582
spreading1601
smearing1611
circumlition1656
oblimation1656
delinition1664
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vi. xii. 74 A servant woman is..put to office and worke of travaile, toylyng, and slubbering.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 143 By their slubbering of the Word (for want of study and meditation).
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xi. 238 To paint the face and bodies of themselves and their idolls.., which they call slubbering.
1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) iii. 21 A careless debasing and slubbering of the body.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
slubberingadj.
That slubbers; working in a dirty or slovenly manner; showing haste and carelessness.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > carelessly
slubberinga1591
cursory1601
cursorarya1616
cursitory1632
passant1685
percursory1837
slurring1880
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough > specifically of persons > in work of any kind
slubberinga1591
slovenly1603
scamping1851
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1886) I. 314 The Jews abhorred the sacrifice for the slubbering priests.
1594 Zepheria ii. sig. B1v My slubbring pencil casts too grosse a matter.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 57 Who ingrosse many pluralities under a non-resident and slubbring dispatch of soules.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. xvii His Expositions are..so dilute, shallow and slubbering.
1731 H. Fielding Grub-St. Opera iii. x. 48 Go, and like a slub'ring Bess howl, Whilst at your griefs I'm quaffing.
1818 Sporting Mag. 2 89 A sort of scumming, smearing, slubbering way of sketching.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 252 A [slovenly] servant is called ‘a slubbering thing’.
Derivatives
ˈslubberingly adv.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb] > without thoroughness or exactness
lightlyOE
overly1440
superficially1526
slovenly1548
glancingly1556
overrunningly1561
cursorily1565
perfunctorily1581
sloven-like1589
cursoriwise1598
perfunctoriously1609
slubberingly1622
cursitorily1628
skimmingly1847
unscrutinizingly1891
sloppily1898
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxi. 23 Such as..slubberingly patch vp some slight and shallow Rime.
1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 284 The Verse..which he brings to testify his tenet expressely, but, by omitting it slubberingly, bids it say nothing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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