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slubber

UK/ˈslʌbə/US/ˈslʌbɚ/

slubber verb: to do (something) hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

Verb

slubber (third-person singular simple present slubbers, present participle slubbering, simple past and past participle slubbered)

  1. (transitive) To do (something) hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
    • [H]e [Antonio] anſvvered, do not ſo, / Slubber not buſineſs for my ſake, Baſſanio, / But ſtay the very riping of the timec. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (also, figuratively, transitive) To cover or daub (something) carelessly with a substance; to stain.
    • [T]here is no art that hath bin more canker'd in her principles, more ſoyl'd, and ſlubber'd vvith aphoriſming pedantry then the art of policie; […]1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 42
  3. (intransitive) To slobber.
    • It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber.1914, Jack London, chapter 33, in Mutiny of the Elsinore

Noun

slubber (plural slubbers)

  1. A person who, or a machine which, slubs.

slubber meaning in Tamil and Bengali

slubber in Tamil

நூல்நூற்பி வகை

slubber in Bengali

লালা ঝরানো

Forms of slubber

Verb
third-person singular presentslubbers
present participleslubbering
past participleslubbered
pastslubbered
Noun
pluralslubbers

Origin of slubber

Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.

Words formed from slubber

Words that rhyme with slubber

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Questions about slubber

What does slubber mean?
Slubber means to do (something) hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
What is slubber in Tamil?
Slubber in Tamil is நூல்நூற்பி வகை. See Slubber meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is slubber?
Slubber can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce slubber?
Slubber is pronounced /ˈslʌbɚ/ (US).
What is the past tense of slubber?
The past tense of slubber is slubbered.

Words near slubber in the dictionary

  1. SLU
  2. SLU-SVP
  3. SLU-SVP Housing Village
  4. slub
  5. slubbed
  6. slubber
  7. slubberdegullion
  8. slubberdegullions
  9. slubbered
  10. slubbering
  11. slubberingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slubber (page history and authors); slubber (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slubber (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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