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slobbery en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From slobber + -y.

Meanings

  1. Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
    • He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek. "Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked. 2007, Elinor de Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page xi:
    • 2004, Susan Johnson - The Broken Book page 25. My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
slobberier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
slobberiest Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

slobberiness

slobbery en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English slob Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English slobbery From slob + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The behaviour or attitudes of a slob; slobbishness.
    • Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery. 1981, Tom Cohan, Canary, page 319: