Flubber vs Slubber - What's the difference?
flubber | slubber |
A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound.
To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
* 1597 , , Merchant of Venice , act 2, sc. 8,
To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
* Milton
To slobber.
* 1914 , , Mutiny of the Elsinore , ch. 33:
As nouns the difference between flubber and slubber
is that flubber is a rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound while slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs.As a verb slubber is
to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.flubber
English
Noun
(-)See also
* oobleckslubber
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Verb
(en verb)- Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
- But stay the very riping of the time.
- There is no art that hath more slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
- It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber .