Lexicographical Neighbors of Slubby
Literary usage of Slubby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess (1914)
"Children, however, are oftener slubby — when they don't want to go to school or
to church ... And Fred felt slubby, too. But when, at ten o'clock, or so, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1873)
"3 0 Hard do., with casts of Pelecypods ... ... ... 1 0 Dark blue shales, rather
slubby ... ... ... SO 0 Grey sandstone ... ... ... ... 3 0 . ..."
3. Highways and Byways in Sussex by Edward Verrall Lucas (1904)
"... and I tumbles out again middlin' sharp, and I slips, 'cause 'twas so slubby,
and in I goos again, and I do think I should ha' been drownded if it warn't ..."
4. Highways and Byways in Sussex by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... and so in I went, all over my head, and I tumbles out again middlin' sharp,
and I slips, 'cause 'twas so slubby, and in I goos again, and I do think ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"... recently trodden by cattle, is said to be slubby, or all of a slub. Sludge is
also a composition of clay and water, for moistening the roots of plants ..."
6. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"... recently trodden by cattle, is said to be slubby, or all of a slub. Sludge is
also a composition of clay and water, for moistening the roots of plants ..."
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