slubber

American  

[sluhb-er] / ˈslʌb ər /

verb (used with object)

1. to perform hastily or carelessly.

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Other Word Forms

• slubberingly adverb

Etymology

Origin of slubber

First recorded in 1520–30, slubber is from the Low German word slubbern to do work carelessly

Example Sentences

Yet all the faults are defects of execution, not of conception, and though they tend to slubber the texture of the film, they do not impair its intensity and radiance.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as for fair and beauteous Millescent, With my vain breath I will not seek to slubber Her angel like perfections; but thou know'st That Essex hath the Saint that I adore.

From The Merry Devil by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

He lived in prayer thrice a day, and "did not slubber over his prayers with hasty amputations, but wrestled in them for a good part of an hour."

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

They are, in the order of their use, the drawing frame, the fly frame, or slubber, the intermediate frame, and the roving and jack frames.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

While the rescued Kwaque continued to moan and slubber thankfulness at his feet, he proceeded to strip them that were naked. 

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack