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  1. slubbernoun

    A person who, or a machine which slubs.

  2. slubberverb

    To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

  3. slubberverb

    To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.

  4. slubberverb

    To slobber.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Slubberverb

    Etymology: Probably from lubber.

    Nature shewed she doth not like men, who slubber up matters of mean account. Philip Sidney.

    Bassanio told him, he would make some speed
    Of his return: he answer’d, do not so,
    Slubber not business for my sake. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

    As they are slubbered over, the malignity that remains will show itself in some chronick disease, or in some species of the lues venerea. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

    You must be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes, with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. William Shakespeare.

    A man of secret ambitious ends, and proportionate counsels, smothered under the habit of a scholar, and slubbered over with a certain rude and clownish fashion, that had the semblance of integrity. Henry Wotton.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slubberverb

    to do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely

  2. Slubberverb

    to daub; to stain; to cover carelessly

  3. Slubbernoun

    a slubbing machine

  4. Etymology: [Cf. Dan. slubbreto swallow, to sup up, D. slobberen to lap, to slabber. Cf. Slabber.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slubber

    slub′ėr, v.t. to stain, to daub, slur over.—n. Slubb′er-degull′ion, a wretch.—adv. Slubb′eringly. [Dut. slobberen, to lap, Low Ger. slubbern.]

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  1. lubbers

  2. burbles

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slubber in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slubber in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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