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slubbering

slubbering is the present participle and gerund of slubber.

Meaning of slubber

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

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Questions about slubbering

What is slubbering the present participle and gerund of?
Slubbering is the present participle and gerund of slubber.

Words near slubbering in the dictionary

  1. slubbed
  2. slubber
  3. slubberdegullion
  4. slubberdegullions
  5. slubbered
  6. slubbering
  7. slubberingly
  8. slubbers
  9. slubbiness
  10. slubbing
  11. slubbings

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