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. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A jellyfish.
- n. (Vet.) 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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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“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slobber’.
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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silverthread's Words
kerfuffle, ponder, hither, thither, persnickety, manhandle, fondle, snarky, trundle, truffle, fluffy, mangle and 90 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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niblet's Words
plonk, blootered, wombat, squash, fiend, slather, goon, slickery, balloon, baboon, spork, glop and 9 more...
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Words To Love
bewitched, extrapolate, peripherals, trifling, agile, thrill, smitten, precarious, ill-conceived, pie hole, presto, frisky and 17 more...
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English Words I take from Wordies
English Words I take from Wordies / Palabras en Inglés que tomo de otros Wordies
hullabaloo, chubby, stabby, ogle, intercourse, slobber, pneumonoultramicr..., palaver, disguise
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Jeff's Words
unremarkable, autochthonous, texts, liketa, idiopathic, etiology, sustren, had rather, had sooner, had better, pablum, crudite and 27 more...
Tweets
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jaime_d from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution Mar 6, 2011