SLABBER

drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble

(verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth; “The baby drooled”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

slabber (third-person singular simple present slabbers, present participle slabbering, simple past and past participle slabbered)

(intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.

(transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.

(transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.

(transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.

Noun

slabber (countable and uncountable, plural slabbers)

Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.

Etymology 2

Noun

slabber (plural slabbers)

A saw for cutting slabs from logs.

A slabbing machine.

Anagrams

• barbels, barbles, rabbles

Etymology

Noun

Slabber (plural Slabbers)

(US, informal) An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.

Anagrams

• barbels, barbles, rabbles

Source: Wiktionary


Slab"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slabbering.] Etym: [OE. slaberen; akin to LG. & D. slabbern, G. schlabbern, LG. & D. slabben, G. schlabben, Icel. slafra. Cf. Slaver, Slobber, Slubber.]

Definition: To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

Slab"ber, v. t.

1. To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot.

2. To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.

Slab"ber, n.

Definition: Spittle; saliva; slaver.

Slab"ber, n. Etym: [See 1st Slab.] (Mach.) (a) A saw for cutting slabs from logs. (b) A slabbing machine.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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