单词 | slobberness |
释义 | slobbernessn. rare. Slobberiness (in various senses); the quality, fact, or condition of being slobbery (in various senses).It is unclear whether the use in quot. 1880 is a specific reference to the proto-Impressionist technique of the artist referred to, or whether it refers more generally to hasty or careless workmanship or execution. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > slovenliness slovenliness1701 slovenry1847 slipshoddinessa1849 slipshodnessa1877 slothfulness1878 slobberness1880 sloppiness1980 1880 Papers Manch. Lit. Club 6 193 With his wonderful power he [sc. the painter David Cox] could roll out a cloud..or give you an impression of true daylight, or suggest a hill-side, or blot in a moving figure; but the influence of this facility on lesser men has simply rendered all this kind of slobberness hateful. 1884 Daily Nebraska State Jrnl. 19 Nov. 2/3 The bride and groom had both become worked up to state [sic] of slobberness on the part of the latter and hysterics on the part of the former. 2017 @MissBethanieS 2 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Oct. 2019) A dog licked me in the eyeball and all I could see was blurry slobberness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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