slubberingly

English

Etymology

Adverb

slubberingly (comparative more slubberingly, superlative most slubberingly)

(dated) In a slovenly or hasty manner.
- 1662 November 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 26th, 1662 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:
  Afeared of my candle's going out, which makes me write thus slubberingly.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 22 p. 23:
  And slubberingly patch up some slight and shallow Rime

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slubberingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)