Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To daub; stain; sully; soil; obscure.
  • To do in a slovenly, careless manner, or with unbecoming haste; slur over.
  • To act or proceed in a slovenly, careless, or hurried manner.
  • To dress (wool).
  • noun Any viscous substance.
  • noun Half-twined or ill-twined woolen thread.
  • noun One who slubs or who manages a slubbing-machine.
  • noun A slubbing-machine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
  • transitive verb To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
  • noun A slubbing machine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
  • verb To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
  • verb To slobber.
  • noun A person who, or a machine which slubs.

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