SLUBBER
Etymology
Verb
slubber (third-person singular simple present slubbers, present participle slubbering, simple past and past participle slubbered)
To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
To slobber.
Noun
slubber (plural slubbers)
A person who, or a machine which, slubs.
Anagrams
• burbles, lubbers, rebulbs, rubbles
Source: Wiktionary
Slub"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slubbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slubbering.] Etym: [Cf. Dan. slubbreto 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. Shak.
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, n.
Definition: A slubbing machine.
SLUB
Slub, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.
Slub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slubbing.]
Definition: To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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