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Slubbed vs Slubber - What's the difference?

slubbed | slubber |

As verbs the difference between slubbed and slubber

is that slubbed is (slub) while slubber is to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

As a noun slubber is

a person who, or a machine which, slubs.

slubbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (slub)

    • slub

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects.
  • Sludge.
  • * '>citation
  • Fabric fiber produced by slubbing.

    • Verb

  • To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.

    • Related terms

    * slubber * slubbing billy

    References

    *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.

    slubber

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
  • * 1597 , , Merchant of Venice , act 2, sc. 8,
    • Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
    But stay the very riping of the time.
  • To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
  • * Milton
    • There is no art that hath more slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
  • To slobber.
  • * 1914 , , Mutiny of the Elsinore , ch. 33:
    • It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who, or a machine which, slubs.

    • References

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

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