单词 | slobbery |
释义 | slobberyn. Habits or behaviour characteristic of a slob; the state or condition of being a slob; laziness, slovenliness. ΘΚΠ 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. Somewhat rare between 16th and 19th centuries. 1. a. Characterized by a tendency to slobber; (also) wet or stained with saliva. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1912adj.a1398 |
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