slubberingly

adv

slubberingly

adv

Etymology From slubbering + -ly.

1

Dated In a slovenly, sloppy or hasty manner.

  • Afeared of my candle's going out, which makes me write thus slubberingly.1662 November 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 26th, 1662”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:
  • And slubberingly patch up some slight and shallow Rime1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 22 p. 23:

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