Slabber
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver. countable, uncountable
- 2 A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
- 3 An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California. US, informal
- 4 A slabbing machine.
- 1 To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver. intransitive
- 2 let saliva drivel from the mouth wordnet
- 3 To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food. transitive
- 4 To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber. transitive
"At the ſame time he clap'd me on the Back, and ſlabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, vvith his great Tongue."
- 5 To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul. transitive
"The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost."
Example
More examples"At the ſame time he clap'd me on the Back, and ſlabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, vvith his great Tongue."
Etymology
From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.
From slab + -er.
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