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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To let saliva or liquid spill out from the mouth; drool.
  2. v. To express sentiment or enthusiasm effusively or incoherently; gush.
  3. v. To wet or smear with or as if with saliva or liquid dribbled from the mouth.
  4. n. Saliva or liquid running from the mouth; drool.
  5. n. Effusive or incoherent expression; drivel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To let saliva fall from the month; slabber; drivel; spill liquid from the mouth in eating or drinking.
  2. To drivel; dote; become foolish or imbecile.
  3. To slaver; spill; spill upon; slabber.
  4. Hence To kiss effusively.
  5. n. Mud; mire.
  6. n. A jellyfish. Also slob.
  7. n. Slaver; liquor spilled; slabber.
  8. n. Same as slub.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
  2. v. To emit saliva or intaken but not yet swallowed liquid to run from one's mouth. To drool.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. See slabber.
  2. n. See slabber.
  3. n. A jellyfish.
  4. n. Salivation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. let saliva drivel from the mouth
  2. n. saliva spilling from the mouth

Etymologies

  1. Middle English sloberen, perhaps of Low German origin.

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  • jaime_d from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution Mar 6, 2011

‘slobber’ has been looked up 836 times, loved by 1 person, added to 8 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 11.