slubbered, ppl. a.
(ˈslʌbəd)
[f. slubber v.]
1. Soiled, smeared; dirty; sullied.
| 1588 Churchyard Sparke of Frendship, etc. D iiij, All slubbred things must needes be washt anue. 1606 Dekker Seven Deadly Sins Wks. (Grosart) II. 33 Wyping their slubberd cheekes with wispes of cleane Strawe. 1642 Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 83, I see Religion in torn ragged weeds, and with slubber'd eyes sitting upon weeping-Crosse. |
| fig. 1619 Fletcher False One ii. iii, Pompey I overthrew: what did that get me? The slubber'd Name of an authoriz'd Enemy. |
2. Hastily put together; hurriedly gone through; done or performed carelessly, etc.
| 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. Prol. 22 What we present I must needes confesse is but slubbered inuention. 1669 Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 77 These..induced me to apply myself, with these not slubbered supplications, to your Honour. 1690 C. Nesse Hist. O. & N. Test. I. 77 Neither will the King of Heaven accept of thy slight and slubberd services. |