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slubberingly en · ADV

Etymology

From slubbering + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (dated) In a slovenly, sloppy or hasty manner.
    • And slubberingly patch up some slight and shallow Rime 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 22 p. 23:
    • Afeared of my candle's going out, which makes me write thus slubberingly. 1662 November 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 26th, 1662”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:

Forms

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more slubberingly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most slubberingly Degree=Sup lexicographic