slubberとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈslʌbɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈslʌbə/
• (Northern England) IPA: /ˈslʊbə/
• (Ireland) IPA: /ˈslʊbəɹ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈslʌbəɹ/
• 韻: -ʌbə(ɹ)

動詞

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

1. (transitive)
   1. To do (something) hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
      • 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:

        [H]e [Antonio] anſvvered, do not ſo, / Slubber not buſineſs for my ſake, Baſſanio, / But ſtay the very riping of the time

   2. (also figurative) To cover or daub (something) carelessly with a substance; to stain.
      • 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:

        [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; […]

2. (intransitive) To slobber.
   • 1914, Jack London, chapter 33, in Mutiny of the Elsinore:

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

派生語

• slubberingly

名詞

slubber (plural slubbers)

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

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

アナグラム

• burbles, lubbers, rebulbs, rubbles