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单词 slobberer
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slobberern.

Brit. /ˈslɒb(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈslɑbərər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slobber v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < slobber v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person or animal who slobbers (in various senses): one who drools copiously or excessively; a messy or noisy eater or drinker; a wet or enthusiastic kisser; (humorously) a small child, a pet (esp. a dog).In quot. 1732 perhaps as a general term of abuse; cf. sense 1b. In quot. 1796 with allusion to behaviour taken to characterize the elderly.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]
mesela1400
scabbardc1440
slotterbugc1440
drivel1498
sow1508
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1530
filthy1553
ketterela1572
slabberer1611
slubberdegullion1612
Grobian1621
slabberdegullion1653
slobber-chops1670
slate1718
haverel1720
slobberer1732
slummock1760
fleabag1805
slush1825
slob1876
trashbag1887
crumb1918
garbage can1925
hog1932
crud1940
sordid1959
grot1970
1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor 2 When a Lady..condescends to agree, To let such a Slobberer [ed. 2 Jackanapes] taste her.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 17 Dec. (1956) I. 281 The Aged are ‘Slobberers.’ The only Vision, which Christianity holds forth, is indeed peculiarly adapted to these Slobberers—Yes! to these lonely & despised, and perishing Slobberers it proclaims, that their ‘Corruptible shall put on Incorruption, & their Mortal put on Immortality’.
1855 Bell's Life in London 11 Nov. 6/1 An alderman is a nice feeder, though the Guildhall laundresses allege that he is a slobberer.
1897–8 Lady's Realm 3 360/1 I never cared for children before I married.., never! I was not like some of these girls who go wild over any little slobberer in the streets.
1917 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 43 466 A few horses are found, which are habitual slobberers and from which a considerable quantity of saliva can be obtained without much difficulty.
1925 Daily Silver Belt (Miami, Arizona) 25 July 5/4 Youth is simply a pre-nuptial slobberer. Age is a past master in the art of kissing.
2011 Irish Times 29 Oct. 16 Designs to suit every pet from 50lb slobberers to models for parrots, hamsters, rats, even ferrets.
b. figurative. A person who speaks or writes in a way regarded as foolish, superficial, or excessively sentimental (cf. slobber v. 5). Also in later use: one who is excessively effusive, obsequious, or enthusiastic (cf. to slobber over —— at slobber v. 1f).
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1749 T. Moss Gen. Lover Pref. I did intend to inscribe it to a certain upstart Slobberer of elegiac Rant and Dribble, as a proper Patron of Nonsence, as one who has an utter Aversion to common sense.
1880 Cheyenne (Wyoming) Weekly Leader 15 Jan. These peace policy slobberers are too far removed from the scenes of strife to understand and appreciate the difficulties encountered by the people of the West.
1884 Atchison (Kansas) Globe 5 Jan. Brave men..who depend for justice upon a nation of slobberers, gushers, and demagogues.
1897 Sporting Mirror 2/4 9 Aug. I must pay a compliment to Miss Harriett Vernon..she looked handsomer and sang more sweetly than ever... For writing that some people may probably call me rude names—slobberer, and so forth.
1932 A. C. Ward Landmarks in Western Lit. v. 114 He chose instead to tickle the ribs of pompous dullards and romantic slobberers.
2012 Irish Independent (Nexis) 22 June 29 Perhaps most wounding of all for the Taoiseach was Clare's disgust at the ‘almost unprecedented slobbering over the Obama family’. She clearly had Enda in mind as one of the arch slobberers.
2. A slovenly or careless farmer, tradesman, etc. Also: a jobbing tailor, cobbler, etc. Chiefly English regional (East Anglian) and Irish English. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > slow or ineffectual
piddler1602
slobberer1787
go-slower1920
ghost payroller1952
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 388 Slobberers, slovenly farmers.
1845 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 1 Nov. The careful farmer has suffered but little, in this district at least. The slobberer always deserves to do so.
1846 Times 4 June 4/6 Towny carried on the business of a jobbing tailor, or ‘slobberer’, as it is technically called, and had been out of work for a considerable period.
1883 W. Campbell Hist. Incorporation of Cordiners Glasgow vi. 40 Makers and menders of boots and shoes..are also known as welters..clobberers, and slobberers.
1889 Essex County Chron. 6 Sept. 1/7 Builders: useful all-round handy man, quick, wants permanency..; aged 32 (no slobberer).
1942 H. Williamson Story of Norfolk Farm xlvii. 323 A careless workman is a slobberer or bodger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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