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Definition of Slobberers
1. slobberer [n] - See also: slobberer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slobberers
Literary usage of Slobberers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"is indeed peculiarly adapted to these slobberers. ... to these lowly and despised
and perishing slobberers it proclaims that their " corruptible shall put ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"slobberers, sb. pi. slovenly farm ere. Slob-farrowing, sb. a particular method
of plowing. See vol. i p. 142. 'In slob-furrowing, the flag is turned toward ..."
3. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"slobberers, sb. pi slovenly farmers. Slob-furrowing, sb. a particular method of
plowing. See vol. ip 142. 'In slob-furrowing, the flag is turned toward the ..."
4. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"Slake, sb. leisure : 'to be at slake,' to be at leisure [ie at slack], slobberers,
sb. pi. slovenly farmers. Slob-furrowing, «6. a particular method of ..."
5. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1839)
"Line. An idle, sloven!« fellow. North. slobberers.s. Slovenly farmers. North.
SLOB-FURROWING, s. A particular method of ploughing. Norf. ..."
6. The Setting Sun: Or, Devil Amongst the Placemen. To which is Added a New by Eaton Stannard Barrett (1809)
"... at least, have cured the address^mon- gers and fisf-slobberers of their
camelion-like appetite, and restricted them to their natural and constitutional ..."
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