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)
- 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]...
- 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
- 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
Questions about slubbering
- What is slubbering the present participle and gerund of?
- Slubbering is the present participle and gerund of slubber.
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