Slubber vs Slumber - What's the difference?
slubber | slumber |
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:
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
* Bible, Psalms cxxi. 4
To be inactive or negligent.
(obsolete) To lay to sleep.
(obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
As verbs the difference between slubber and slumber
is that slubber is to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily while slumber is to be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.As nouns the difference between slubber and slumber
is that slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs while slumber is a very light state of sleep, almost awake.slubber
English
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 .
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)Anagrams
* *slumber
English
(wikipedia slumber)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He at last fell into a slumber , and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. — Bunyan.
- Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber . — Shakespeare.
- Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. — Dryden.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- (Wotton)
- (Spenser)
