slabber

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Removing the slabber which was gathered in his beard and at his mouth, he shouted: "Put police on you will I Away must I now," said Evan.

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  1. To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver. You think you're in the Country, where great lubberly Brothers slabber and kiss one another when they meet. Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 15.
  2. To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food. To slabber pottage. Baret.
  3. To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber. He slabbereth me all over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull.

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  1. Also slobber (and slubber), q. v.; from Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen =Low German slabbern, later G. schlabbern, lap, sup, slaver, slabber, =Icelandic slafra, slaver; freq. of Middle Dutch slabben, slaver, slabber, Dutch slabben =Middle Low German slabben, lap as a dog in drinking, sup, lick, later G. schlabben, slaver, slabber (cf. schlabbe, an animal's mouth); cf, slaver (from Icelandic), a doublet of slabber.
  2. Also slobber, q. v.; from slabber, v. Cf. slaver, n.
  3. from slab + -er.
 

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