Snubber vs Slubber - What's the difference?
snubber | slubber |
A device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems, or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems.
(rare) One who snubs.
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 snubber and slubber
is that snubber is a device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems, or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems while slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs.As a verb slubber is
to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.snubber
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(wikipedia snubber)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*slubber
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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 .