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noun

Slabber n. Spittle; saliva; slaver.

Slabber n. (Mach.)

(a)

A saw for cutting slabs from logs.

(b)

A slabbing machine.

verb

Slabber v. t.

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

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."

Slabber v. i. (past & past part. slabbered; pres. part. slabbering) (Written also slaver, and slobber) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slabber" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the best fruits of the climate. The language of these people, which is spoken by all the Indians of California, is the most brutish and inhuman language, without any exception, that I ever heard, or that could well be conceived of. It is a complete slabber. The words fall off of the ends of their tongues, and a continual slabbering sound is made in the cheeks, outside of the teeth. It cannot have been the language of Montezuma and the ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... was Fainter than that of the Scales, and Slabber (if I may so call it) of Whitings, and much Fainter than the Light of a Glow-worm, by which I have been sometimes able to Read a short Word, whereas after an ordinary Affriction of this Diamond I was not able to discern distinctly by the Light ...

— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle