slubber

English

Verb

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

1. To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 8,

     Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,

     But stay the very riping of the time.

2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
3. To slobber.
   • 1914, Jack London, Mutiny of the Elsinore, ch. 33,

     It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber.

Noun

slubber (plural slubbers)

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

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

• burbles
• lubbers