I told a man ’twas funny that
His overcoat was new
While wifey wore her last year’s hat—
And he skyscrimbled, too!
Slub, n. 1. A mild illness, that does not really incapacitate. 2. A “headache.” 3. An indisposition, manufactured for an especial occasion.
Slub´by, a. Feeling the necessity of a good excuse.
A slub is a cold, a headache, a boil or any affection in the disreputable underworld of disease. There’s nothing of the aristocracy of pain in the slub. It is, so to speak, a mere working illness.
Men’s slubs, however, are more intense than women’s. A man when he has a slub, says, “Oh pshaw! it’s nothing.” But he expects, all the same, to be assiduously attended. Every woman in the household must minister to his misery. (See Varm.)
Women have slubs innumerable, and for the most part say nothing about them, unless they want an excuse for staying away from a party. When the society woman has a slub, she sends for a good looking doctor. (See Alibosh.)
Children, however, are oftener slubby—when they don’t want to go to school or to church the slub works overtime. (See Uglet and Moosoo.)
Shop-girls are not allowed to have slubs.
“I have a slub!” the maiden said,
“I cannot go with you.
“You’ll have to go without me, Fred!”
And Fred felt slubby, too.
But when, at ten o’clock, or so,
He found his girl disdainful
Maxixing with his hated foe
Fred’s slub grew really painful!