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

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slubber

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

Only it grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber, and great albatrosses, gray with storm-battling of the Horn, wheel and veer.

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

While the spinning frame is built on entirely different principles from the roving, intermediate, or slubber frame, the object of each machine is the same as that of the spinning frame.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by Dooley, William H. (William Henry)

As in the slubber, intermediate, and roving frames, the rove is taken from two bobbins for one spindle.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by Dooley, William H. (William Henry)

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