Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SLUB, n. Also sluib, slobb. A messy viscid substance, slime (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl., 1908 Jak. (1928), slobb, 1914 Angus Gl., sluib, Sh. 1970); hence by extension, a jellyfish, a medusa, one of the free-swimming scyphozoa (Jak.). Cf. Slubber, n.1 Deriv. slubie, adj., slimy, viscous, messy (Edm.). [slʊb]Sh. 1888 Edmonston & Saxby Home of a Naturalist 227:
The men called it a sea-devil, and all the description they could ever give of it was, that it resembled a large lump of grey slub.
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