slobbery, a.
(ˈslɒbərɪ)
Also 4–6 slobery.
[f. slobber n. or v. Cf. MDu. slobberich, Du. dial. slobberig.]
1. Characterized by slobber or slobbering; disagreeably wet, slimy, or dirty.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.), An olde hounde is ofte slowe and slobery. 1541 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. 96 b, Lykewyse no more do I alowe fylthy and slobery rayment. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iii. v. 13, I will sell my Dukedome To buy a slobbry and a durtie Farme. 1710–11 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Jan., The weather had given a little, as you women call it, so it was something slobbery. 1712 Ibid. 18 Dec., We have terrible snowy slobbery weather. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ix, A watery, pulpy, slobbery freshman and new-comer in this Planet. 1848 Walsh Aristophanes, Clouds i. i, Slobbery kisses, Profusion, gluttony and Venus'es. 1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. 27 Sucking an orange in a loud slobbery fashion. |
2. Of a soft, yielding texture.
| 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 178 You keep rugging at the lang slobbery worsted till it comes aff. |
3. Slovenly, careless.
| 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. ii. (1872) II. 406 His continual haste, and slobbery manner of working up those Hundred and odd volumes of his. 1881 Leic. Gloss. s.v., A very slobbery job, John. |