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Slubber

//ˈslʌbɚ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who, or a machine which, slubs.
Verb
  1. 1
    To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

    "[…] he [Antonio] answered, do not so, Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, But stay the very riping of the time"

  2. 2
    To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.

    "There is no art that hath more […] slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy."

  3. 3
    To slobber.

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.

Etymology 2

Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.

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