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slobberer

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slob⋅ber

  [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)
3. to wet or make foul by slobbering: The baby has slobbered his bib.
4. to let (saliva or liquid) run from the mouth: The baby slobbered milk on his bib.
5. to utter with slobbering: He sobbed and slobbered the bad news.
–noun
6. saliva or liquid dribbling from the mouth; slaver.
7. mawkishly sentimental speech or actions.
Also, slabber.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME (n. and v.), var. of slabber. See slab 2 , -er 6

Related forms:
slob⋅ber⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. drool, dribble, slop.
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slob·ber   (slŏb'ər)   
v.   slob·bered, slob·ber·ing, slob·bers

v.   intr.

  1. To let saliva or liquid spill out from the mouth; drool.

  2. To express sentiment or enthusiasm effusively or incoherently; gush.

v.   tr.
To wet or smear with or as if with saliva or liquid dribbled from the mouth.
n.  

  1. Saliva or liquid running from the mouth; drool.

  2. Effusive or incoherent expression; drivel.


[Middle English sloberen, perhaps of Low German origin.]
slob'ber·er n., slob'ber·y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
slobber

  1. n.
    nonsense. (From the term for saliva running out of the mouth.) : I've heard enough of your slobber. Can it!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

slobber  (v.)
c.1400, probably related to Frisian slobberje "to slurp," M.L.G. slubberen "slurp," M.Du. overslubberen "wade through a ditch," etc., all of imitative origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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