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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Fwd: slubber: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Nov. 14, 2014

slubber

\SLUHB-er\

verb
1. to perform hastily or carelessly.

Quotes

Even-tempered as he was, he soon began to give evidences of the strain of being pent in with a mechanical monster that toiled, and sobbed, and slubbered in the shouting dark.
-- Jack London, "The Pearls of Parlay," A Son of the Sun, 1912

Origin

Slubber may descend from the Low German term slubbern meaning "to do work carelessly." When slubber entered English in the early to mid-1500s, it meant "to stain or smear."

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