Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To let saliva or liquid spill out from the mouth; drool.
- v. To express sentiment or enthusiasm effusively or incoherently; gush.
- v. To wet or smear with or as if with saliva or liquid dribbled from the mouth.
- n. Saliva or liquid running from the mouth; drool.
- n. Effusive or incoherent expression; drivel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To let saliva fall from the month; slabber; drivel; spill liquid from the mouth in eating or drinking.
- To drivel; dote; become foolish or imbecile.
- To slaver; spill; spill upon; slabber.
- Hence To kiss effusively.
- n. Mud; mire.
- n. A jellyfish. Also slob.
- n. Slaver; liquor spilled; slabber.
- n. Same as slub.
Wiktionary
- n. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
- v. To emit saliva or intaken but not yet swallowed liquid to run from one's mouth. To drool.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. See slabber.
- n. See slabber.
- n. A jellyfish.
- n. Salivation.
WordNet 3.0
- v. let saliva drivel from the mouth
- n. saliva spilling from the mouth
Etymologies
- Middle English sloberen, perhaps of Low German origin.
Examples
“(Maybe not someone who floats outside their bedroom window at night, not least because slobber is hard to scrub off of windows, but I’m going to assume that if they don’t fall in love with a gravity-defying vampire, this won’t be a problem.) (Yeah, the stalkery thing is not awesome, but it’s not exactly a new and outrageous theme in western lit.”
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“Good times were had and I got covered in dog slobber, which is perfectly okay with me.”
“Well thanks for the kudos though us fussy femmes don't do "slobber"?”
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“Clover is good medicine for a sick horse, but because of its action on the salivary glands is apt to make work horses "slobber" at certain seasons.”
“A bad rifle shot or a bad shotgun shot can and does "slobber" his game by hitting it in the wrong places or with the outer fringe of his pattern.”
“They were pretty docile, though they did slobber a bit on the floor.”
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“Hopefully they will also remember not to slobber on anyone. posted by Deron Bauman in animals, pets | * | 6 comments comments range on”
“This lady makes me sick just like the OBAMA slobber fest.”
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“Enough with the Michael Jackson wall to wall slobber fest.”
“It won't so long as our Noise Media continues to slobber all over him, eat out of his hand, and not question or scrutinize him.”
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