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Slabber definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLAB'BER, v.i. To let the saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; to drivel. It is also written slaver.
SLAB'BER, v.t.
1. To sup up hastily, as liquid food.
2. To wet and foul by liquids suffered to fall carelessly from the mouth.
3. To shed; to spill.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slabber Slab"ber, v. t. 1. To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. --Arbuthnot. 2. To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. --Tusser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slabber Slab"ber, n. Spittle; saliva; slaver.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slabber Slab"ber, n. [See 1st Slab.] (Mach.) (a) A saw for cutting slabs from logs. (b) A slabbing machine.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slabber Slab"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slabbering.] [OE. slaberen; akin to LG. & D. slabbern, G. schlabbern, LG. & D. slabben, G. schlabben, Icel. slafra. Cf. Slaver, Slobber, Slubber.] To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Slaver, slobber. II. v. n. [Written also Slobber.] 1. Slaver, drivel. 2. Shed, spill, drop, let fall. III. n. Slaver, slobber.

Moby Thesaurus

dribble, drivel, drool, expectorate, expectoration, foam, froth, hawk, mouth-watering, ptyalism, saliva, salivate, salivation, sialagogue, slaver, slobber, spew, spit, spittle, sputum