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Slubber vs Stubber - What's the difference?

slubber | stubber |

As nouns the difference between slubber and stubber

is that slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs while stubber is (rare) one who, or that which, stubs.

As a verb slubber

is to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

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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    stubber

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) One who, or that which, stubs.
  • * 2011 , Jeanette Foster, Frommer's Maui 2012 (page 186)
    • Swimming is safe here, but scattered lava rocks are toe stubbers at the water line, and parents should make sure kids don't venture too far out, as the bottom slopes off quickly.