slobber

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/ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/

Definition of slobber

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
    “There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
    “There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.”
  2. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)A dribbly shower (of rain).
    “I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows.”
    “"Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely."”
    “[…] treading through the slobber of rain that evoked a past like morsels of unsavoury eternity, slid the motor-car showily tossing up wings of water. 'Hoi, Mag!' It was her fiancé, ruddy with twenty-five-year-old enthusiasm and grinning like an[…]”
  3. (countable, uncountable)Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber.”
  4. (countable, dated, uncountable)A jellyfish.
  5. (attributive, countable, form-of, uncountable)Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
    “slobber grass, slobber hay”

verb

  1. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.
    “All babies slobber.”
  2. To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
    “[…] rain slobbered over New York. Fifty-eighth Street's construction debris ran in murky rivulets. Martin, Bagel and I walked single file on wood planks through Avon's rough board tunnel.”
    “[…] rain slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible.”
    “All day rain slobbered through the streets, across lawns, into my grandfather's basement. He had an irrigation pump and three garden hoses, but he couldn't keep up.”
    “Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.”
    “[…] drool slobbered from the folds around its mouth. Eyes glowed, hot coals in the darkness.”
  3. (uncommon)To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
    “[…] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her.”
    “[…] slobbering her own kisses on his neck.”
    “[…] spit-slobbered Brussels sprouts, gloopy gravy and snotty school custard.”
    “[…] beast became friendly and wagged his tail and whined and slobbered his hand.”
    “Leaves and rain slobbered the welcome mat under our feet, […]”
  4. (colloquial)To kiss.
    “Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.”
  5. (slang, transitive)To fellate.

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Etymology

From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”).

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