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

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

There are more spindles upon this frame than upon the slubber.

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

This invention was solved practically about two years since, and is now being employed as applied to drawing frames, doublers, speeder, intermediate, and slubber.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

In being applied to the slubber a breakage either at the front or back can be arranged for.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various