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单词 slobbery
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slobberyn.

Brit. /ˈslɒb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈslɑbəri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slob n.2, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < slob n.2 + -ery suffix.It is unclear whether the following represents an isolated earlier instance of this word in the sense ‘slushy sentiment’ (compare slob n.2 5 and perhaps also slob n.2 3), or whether it shows an independent formation < slobber n. (compare slobber n. 2d) + -y suffix3:1890 Los Angeles Times 9 June 4/3 The apotheosis of gush..[was] reached in the San Francisco papers of yesterday in the accounts of the Oelrichs-Fair wedding... The Examiner outdid itself in slobbery. It had pictures of nearly all connected with the affair.
Habits or behaviour characteristic of a slob; the state or condition of being a slob; laziness, slovenliness.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > behaviour
lomperingc1315
truandisea1400
sleuthingc1450
slugging1532
truanting1532
lusking1579
concessation1623
lazinga1626
lounging1793
loafing1838
bumming1857
mooch1859
loaf1860
sluggarding1864
flânerie1873
slobbery1912
spine-bashing1941
slobbing1960
lepak1993
lepaking1994
1912 ‘S. Supercern’ Truth will Out iii. 76 But may not cleanliness be heeded, practiced and observed, In spite of penury and not to have relaxed or swerved, A jot from the path of rigid foresight in economy, And be estranged to filth, uncleanliness, and slobbery.
1967 Phi Delta Kappan 49 34/3 You have never once indicated that Perkle's behavior adds up to slobbery in your book.
1992 Independent 12 June 18/1 Not to put too fine a point on it, Miss Halford was describing unacceptable institutionalised yobbery and slobbery.
2005 T: N.Y. Times Style Mag. 18 Sept. 110/3 After two generations of casual slobbery—whose granddad doesn't wear jeans?—the sharp blazer with shiny buttons has a dandyish glamour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

slobberyadj.

Brit. /ˈslɒb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈslɑb(ə)ri/
Forms: Middle English sloberye, Middle English–1500s slobery, 1600s slobbry, 1700s– slobbery.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slobber n., slobber v., -y suffix1.
Etymology: Either (i) < slobber n. + -y suffix1, or (ii) < slobber v. + -y suffix1. Compare Middle Dutch slobberich slimy, muddy, dirty (Dutch slobberig ). Compare slabbery adj.
Somewhat rare between 16th and 19th centuries.
1.
a. Characterized by a tendency to slobber; (also) wet or stained with saliva.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [adjective] > characterized by
slobberya1398
slaveryc1430
slobbering1573
slavering1575
slabbering1583
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with saliva
slobberya1398
drivelledc1400
slaveryc1430
beslavered1598
slabbered1609
spittly1611
bespawled1612
slobbered1742
spittled1926
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > disagreeably
slobbery?1529
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxvii. 1170 An old hound is ofte slowe and slobery.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. ix. 20/2 A watery, pulpy, slobbery freshman and new-comer in this Planet.
1863 T. A. Trollope Guilio Malatesta I. i. viii. 185 A slightly lisping voice of that slobbery quality which often belongs to a very fat and jowly face.
1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. 27 Sucking an orange in a loud slobbery fashion.
1913 ‘M. Blake’ Voice of Heart ii. 29 Infants revolted her. The slobbery bibs, the squirming red hands, the wrinkled red monkey faces nauseated her.
1980 K. S. Ryan Narrow Cage ii. 12 Nanny wiped Brett's cheeks, the slobbery chin always wet with saliva.
2003 J. Katz New Work of Dogs iv. 91 Cherokee was a huge slobbery dog with perpetually muddy paws.
b. Of a kiss: wet, sloppy. Of an embrace or other display of physical affection: characterized by such kisses.
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1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. i in Comedies 282 Upon the bridal night we went to bed—I smelling of new wine, fig baskets, wool, And she of perfumes, saffron, slobbery kisses, Profusion, gluttony, and Venus'es.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling v. 158 The angler..will often hear a ‘suck’ like a slobbery kiss, that is..an eel feeding.
1920 It 4 Sept. 13/1 Every piece of good writing, when made into a photoplay, is ruined by a slobbery embrace at the end.
1989 M. W. Bonnano Risks ii. 34 Mamie..[stood] on unsteady tiptoe to kiss her juicily on the cheek. ‘Tween us we'll give this here boy a run, won't we?’ ‘I guess,’ Lynn Ann said, trying not to cringe from her slobbery affection.
2009 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 31 July a12/1 Belli planted a slobbery kiss on Piven's cheek as the pair posed for pictures.
c. Of speech, writing, thought, etc.: overly sentimental or romantic; mawkish, cloying, soppy.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective]
sugary1591
maudlina1631
mawkish1702
sickly1766
emetic1770
mawky1773
pamby1820
sentimental1823
saccharine1841
sticky1841
mushy1848
sentimentalizing1856
Christmas card1860
maumish1866
slobbery1875
namby-pamby1883
sloppy1883
slushy1889
sentimentalistic1904
marshmallowy1907
hearts and flowers1911
slobby1913
soppy1918
meltyc1921
lavender1928
saccharescent1930
schmaltzya1934
sloshy1933
gooey1935
icky1938
cheesy1943
drippy1952
soupy1953
squishy1953
saccharined1962
gloopy1965
yechy1969
yucky1970
sucky1971
yuck1971
schmoozy1976
1875 Cincinnati Enquirer 13 Apr. 1/4 A good deal more of Beecherian slush and slobbery sentimentality.
1925 Albany (Missouri) Capital 7 May 8/2 A limousine and a lot of slobbery love letters to turn over to the lawyers later on.
1950 Manch. Guardian 2 Dec. 3/1 Soviet children's books—though still containing a lot of rather silly ‘slobbery’ stuff about teddy bears, puppies, and pussies—tend to be more ‘rational’.
2005 N. Johnson Big Dead Place vii. 146 More slobbery papers..tried to recapture the magic of the previous year with headlines of the ‘mercy mission’.
2.
a. Disagreeably slimy, wet, or dirty. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective]
lithec888
merroweOE
neshOE
tender?c1225
softa1250
unharda1300
supplec1325
melchc1350
unsad1398
slobbery?a1425
lushc1440
mulch?1440
gentle1555
mellow1577
softly1589
tenerous1598
siddow1601
maumy1728
frush1848
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 169, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Sloberi A man schulde vse none oynementes þat ben sloberye & vnctuous as longe as pouders myȝte sufficen to his entent.
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. viii. sig. g.ij Lyke wyse no more do I alowe fylthy and slobery arayment.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. v. 13 I will sell my Dukedome, To buy a slobbry and a durtie Farme. View more context for this quotation
1791 Premiums offered by Dublin Soc., for Agric. & Planting 20 The headlands were in a shocking Condition from Wet.., and the plough hardly able to turn it, being so hard, tough, and slobbery.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 90 You keep ruggin' at the lang slobbery worsted till it cums aff wi' a tear in your haun'.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 452/2 A vault dripping with perpetual moisture, green and slobbery, such as toads delight in crawling heavily.
1861 R. M. Ballantyne Dog Crusoe & his Master vi. 78 Everything was soaked and saturated... The coverings were slobbery; the skins they sat on were slobbery; the earth itself was slobbery so Dick threw his blanket (which was also slobbery) round his shoulders.
1918 Boys' Life July 25/2 One [sc. a log] bucked under him and sent him down to his waist into the slobbery, slishy, cold, slapping water.
1960 J. Morris World of Venice 24 Three small boys have grounded their boat on a sand-bank, and are throwing slobbery mud at each other.
b. Chiefly Irish English. With reference to weather: (in early use) slushy, sleety; (later more generally) cold, wet, and blustery.
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1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Jan. (1948) I. 172 The weather had given a little, as you women call it, so it was something slobbery.
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 18 Dec. (1948) II. 583 We have terrible snowey Slobbery weathr.
1811 M. Leadbeater Cottage Dialogues Irish Peasantry x. 52 My master had taken off his shoes, when the weather was slobbery, to go up stairs.
1912 Living Age 29 June 791/2 This slobbery weather will keep her indoors... If only the sun would shine.., the shooting-up of one snow-drop bud would keep her happy maybe for half a day.
2017 Connacht Tribune 3 Feb. 80/3 A ‘slobbery’ period of weather looks to be in store for us with a mixture of wind and rain lining up for the coming seven days.
3. Characterized or marked by lack of care, precision, or thoroughness; slovenly, careless; sloppy. Now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough
overlyc1450
superficialc1456
sloven1532
sloven-like1569
perfunctory1592
slovenly1592
perfunctorious1599
cursory1601
cursorarya1616
slighty1619
cursitory1632
touch and go1682
passant1685
skimming1728
slapdashc1792
lax1812
slap-bang1815
slummocking1825
slobbery1832
percursory1837
slipshod1845
slip-string1854
slummocky1855
free and easy1864
unthorough1868
slurring1880
slummy1881
sploshy1881
skimmy1893
surfacy1975
drive-through1994
1832 Republican No. 32. 228/2 Every rational person..must have been disgusted by the nonsense, the slobbery arguments against Reform, contained in the boroughmongers' publications.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. ii. 406 His continual haste, and slobbery manner of working up those Hundred and odd Volumes of his.
1876 Lancaster Farmer June 88/2 Have your sheaves of even size and well bound. Badly bound and ‘slobbery’ sheaves cannot be tolerated in stacking.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) A very slobbery job, John.
1940 Iola (Kansas) Reg. 29 July 6/1 The Rams perfect performance followed a string of slobbery performances, and for that reason was particularly welcome.
1985 in A. V. Grinnell Everhart (Eberhard) Family & Descendants 227 We had high school kids out there [sc. in a cemetery] at one time, who would work pretty good for an hour or two then began to do a slobbery job (of trimming round markers).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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