slobbery
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slobbery (comparative slobberier, superlative slobberiest)
- Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
- 2007, Elinor de Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page xi:
- He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.
"Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.
- 2004, Susan Johnson - The Broken Book page 25.
- My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]slobbery (uncountable)
- The behaviour or attitudes of a slob; slobbishness.
- 1981, Tom Cohan, Canary, page 319:
- Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery.