slubber

present singular third person slubbers · participle present slubbering · participle past slubbered · past slubbered

1. transitiveTo 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 time

   c. 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii], page 171

2. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo 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. intransitiveTo 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

plural slubbers

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