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Hastily vs Slubber - What's the difference?

hastily | slubber |

As an adverb hastily

is in a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.

As a verb slubber is

to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

As a noun slubber is

a person who, or a machine which, slubs.

hastily

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • (label) Soon, shortly.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
    • she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

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    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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