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Slobber   /slˈɑbər/   Listen
noun
Slobber  n.  
1.
See Slabber.
2.
(Zool.) A jellyfish. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
pl. (Vet.) Salivation.



verb
Slobber  v. t. & v. i.  See Slabber.



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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"Slobber" Quotes from Famous Books



... this razor-edged conduit with a hundredweight of drain-pipe round his neck. What I want is a definite instruction which is neither murderous nor futile. Burn it, you handed me enough slush when I was rising. Why the hell can't you slobber out something ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... says I, I shall be always glad to do what is in my power, and so I pretended not to know what he meant. Then he took me into his Lap.—O Mamma, I could tell you something if I would—and he kissed me——and I said I won't be slobber'd about so, so I won't; and he bid me get out of the Room for a saucy Baggage, and said he had a good mind to ...
— An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews • Conny Keyber

... Tostig. "By Odin, the women of the North Danes are a scurvy breed. They birth dwarfs, not men. Of what use is this thing? He will never make a man. Listen you, Lingaard, grow him to be a drink-boy at Brunanbuhr. And have an eye on the dogs lest they slobber him down by mistake as a ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... left old fiery hard-hitting Paul for an easier path. He said he thought Paul should wink at, or slobber over sin, instead of rebuking it. "He was so very fond of the knife, you know; and he never would use sticking-plaster, because he said it never healed the sore but made it burrow underneath and become bigger, worse, and dangerous" (2 ...
— The Chocolate Soldier - Heroism--The Lost Chord of Christianity • C. T. Studd

... in the agony of his terror. A crimson slobber drooled from his swollen lips. As he was cut loose from the cords that bound him to the post and the first stick thumped his back he sprang away ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate^. vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck^, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god. disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber^; eructate; drool. unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump. be let out. spew forth, erupt, ooze &c (emerge) 295. Adj. emitting, emitted, &c v.. Int. begone!, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... once more They slobber'd little Joey; [12] Then, with some civil jaw, [13] Part squatted, to drink bohea, And part swig'd barley swipes, [14] As short-cut they were smoaking, [15] While some their patter flash'd [16] In ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer

... into the tissues beneath. The general symptoms are languor, weakness, and slight fever. In spite of plenty of good feed the calf is seen to be failing. It stops sucking, or, if older, altogether refuses to eat. The temperature at this time may be from 104 deg. to 107 deg. F. The slobber becomes profuse, swallowing very difficult, opening of the mouth quite painful, and a most offensive odor is exhaled. The tongue is swollen and its motion greatly impaired. Sometimes the mouth is kept open, permitting the tumefied tongue to protrude. One or more of the above symptoms ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... damn your soul. But it's what you've got up here, up here! Brains you've got, brains! You were right all these years. Scamps and puddingheads, puddingheads and scamps! And you're going at it right, I say. You keep the men away. You don't slobber all over them, and then lie to them, and make donkeys of them, and ruin them. No, you're a real girl, Roseta, better than the best ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... praised!) he shouted, with the slobber of excitement on his lips and beard. "Now I go to make Armenians pay for this! Let the shapkali,* too, avoid me! Ya Ali, ya Mahoma, Alahu!" (Oh, Ali, oh, ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy



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