slobber

[ slob-er ]
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verb (used without object)
  1. to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.

  2. to indulge in mawkish sentimentality: My family slobbered all over me when I finally got home.

verb (used with object)
  1. to wet or make foul by slobbering: The baby has slobbered his bib.

  2. to let (saliva or liquid) run from the mouth: The baby slobbered milk on his bib.

  1. to utter with slobbering: He sobbed and slobbered the bad news.

noun
  1. saliva or liquid dribbling from the mouth; slaver.

  2. mawkishly sentimental speech or actions.

Origin of slobber

1
1350–1400; Middle English (noun and v.), variant of slabber.See slab2, -er6

Other words for slobber

Other words from slobber

  • slob·ber·er, noun

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How to use slobber in a sentence

  • He stooped over her hand, and slobbered kisses upon her unresponsive glove.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • Imagine one of these soft white shirt fronts well slobbered, and you have mine host of the Risveglio.

    Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
  • We have slobbered about the nobility of toil, till at last the nobles naturally insist on eating the cake.

    Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
  • She and Egholm simply slobbered over each other with their affected ways.

    Egholm and his God | Johannes Buchholtz
  • Physically, Nature had slobbered all over Carter Johnson; she had lavished on him her very last charm.

    Crooked Trails | Frederic Remington

British Dictionary definitions for slobber

slobber

slabber

/ (ˈslɒbə) /


verb
  1. to dribble (saliva, food, etc) from the mouth

  2. (intr) to speak or write mawkishly

  1. (tr) to smear with matter dribbling from the mouth

noun
  1. liquid or saliva spilt from the mouth

  2. maudlin language or behaviour

Origin of slobber

1
C15: from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch slubberen; see slaver ²

Derived forms of slobber

  • slobberer or slabberer, noun
  • slobbery or slabbery, adjective

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