Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
- To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
- To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
- To cover, as with a liquid spilled; soil; befoul.
- n. Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.
- n. One who or that which slabs; specifically, a saw for removing the slabs or outside parts of a log.
- n. In metal-working, a machine for dressing the sides of nuts or the heads of bolts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.
- v. To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.
- v. To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking.
- n. Spittle; saliva; slaver.
- n. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
- n. A slabbing machine.
WordNet 3.0
- v. let saliva drivel from the mouth
Examples
“We want to avoid that - because let's face it - if you have to slabber your muffin with butter to make it edible, you've just lost the benefit of lowering the fat.”
“Snarling, Rufus pulled his hook out and went for the first slabber.”
The Boat of a Million Years
“Removing the slabber which was gathered in his beard and at his mouth, he shouted: "Put police on you will I.”
“_To_ DRABLE, DRAIBLE, _v.a. _ to slabber; to befoul.”
“However, it insensibly seemed to give the lie to his imputation; for his spirits rose to a more elevated pitch of mirth and good-fellowship; he sung, or rather roared, the Early Horn, so as to alarm the whole neighbourhood, and began to slabber his companions with a most bear-like affection.”
“Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth, which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half-way down to the ground.”
“Hes the biggest slabber we have ever had at Old Trafford, go fuck ureself carla ya little fanny”
“slabbering," and the verb _baver_ "to slabber," but the bib is now called _bavette_.”
“I willna have you offering to slabber ower my hand if that's what you're after. ”
“Look at him there, the muckle slabber, "and she pointed to”
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yarb when we parted, they embraced me of their own accord, and slabbered me over with inexpressible fondness.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 8 ch. 10 Oct 7, 2008