slobberedadj.
/ˈslɒbəd/, U.S. /ˈslɑbərd/ 1.
a. Expressed by, with, or as by slobbering; wet or stained with saliva.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > made wet > in a dirty or disagreeable manner
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with saliva
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1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 24 For what live ever Here?..To see what we have seen? Hear, till unheard the same old Slobber'd Tale?
1805 J. W. Cunningham World Without Souls xvi. 122 These men would appear to be as much idiots as a slobbered chin, and acre of face, and saucer eyes could make them.
1862 G. P. Scrope Volcanos (ed. 2) 429 Overflowing waves of slobbered drops of highly viscid lava.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators 329 Syllables that drop like slobbered wine from the close shaven lip.
1899 Rep. Surgeon-General (U.S. Army) 35 Many of the men keep portions of their horse equipment at the head of their bunks, and bridle and bits covered with the slobbered saliva of the house can often be found.
1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction vii. 124 A pathetic little mite in a rabbit-skin, with blue eyes and a slobbered face.
2003 T. E. Sniegoski Aerie 298 They were..watching the dog as he tirelessly chased the tennis ball and dropped the slobbered toy at Vilma's feet.
b. With prepositions, as slobbered-over, slobbered-on.
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1916 Sydney Sportsman 26 Jan. 1/6 Swelled head inevitably follows, unless the slobbered-over one is a man in a million.
1983 W. Morris Solo (1984) iv. 70 An aging bulldog, with clouded eyes, wearing a soiled and slobbered-on turtleneck sweater, lay curled up..in a wicker basket by the stove.
2010 @mynamesamiee 15 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 28 July 2019) My dog is throwing a rubber duck around, in an attempt to tease me. I don't want your slobbered-on duck, Sam.
2. Smeared, daubed, or splattered; esp. (with reference to painting) executed or applied in a careless, clumsy, or hurried manner. Now rare.
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1811 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 65 142 They [sc. the great old painters] did not, however, tolerate any slobbered work, nor any attempted to substitute blotches of colour for definitions of surface.
1859 Daily News 7 May 2/4 It is quite lamentable that the venerable David Cox is not restrained from exhibiting such a damaging—we do not know what to call it, for its slobbered paint resembles nothing in the heavens above or the earth beneath.
1880 Paper & Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 37 It was dulled and ruined by the slobbered-on paste.
1908 World To-day Jan. 66/2 Their smudgy, dingy, slobbered water-colors—how tiresome; their dull, stodgy, gobby, heavy oils—how they bore one.
1955 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ World of Words in Compl. Poems (1994) II. 827 The slobbered mud of a marish waste.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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