slobber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slobbers
form: slobbering
form: slobbered
form: slobbered
Etymology: From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). Not related to English slob.
Senses: examples: text: All babies slobber.
synonyms: drool
slaver
glosses: To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.
examples: text: […] rain slobbered over New York. Fifty-eighth Street's construction debris ran in murky rivulets. Martin, Bagel and I walked single file on wood planks through Avon's rough board tunnel.
ref: 1980, Elaine Suss, A Money Marriage: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: […] rain slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible.
ref: 1992, LaJoyce Martin, The Other Side of Jordan, →ISBN:
text: All day rain slobbered through the streets, across lawns, into my grandfather's basement. He had an irrigation pump and three garden hoses, but he couldn't keep up.
ref: 2005, The Georgia Review:
text: Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.
ref: 2006 September 12, Warrior Girl, Sfx Fantasy / Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 14:
text: […] drool slobbered from the folds around its mouth. Eyes glowed, hot coals in the darkness.
ref: 2007 02, Colin Harvey, Vengeance, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 155:
text: […] rain slobbering into every nook.
ref: 2009 March 26, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: […] rain slobbered all over the windows. I sat and stared at it for a few moments and considered resisting. But what was I to do in a place like this, […]
ref: 2011 April 1, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Last Train from Liguria, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
text: […] rain slobbered all over the Leeds-gray façade of the student housing building. It looked as if the concrete itself was being melted away by acid, and the windows closed in quick succession as if choreographed.
ref: 2012 October 2, Viola Di Grado, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, Europa Editions, →ISBN:
text: Rain slobbered on my legs, making them slick and cold, sending shivers across my skin. I skittered around a group of slow-moving tourists, cursing Afton for insisting I get up early and wear a skirt today. Finally breaking through the[…]
ref: 2016 January 5, Brenda Drake, Thief of Lies, Entangled: Teen, →ISBN:
text: […] spit slobbered down his chin. The smell of the cheap wine and the piss that stained his pants rose up and like a cloud of misery shoving its way into my face. I tried not to breathe.
ref: 2019 August 5, Esperanza M. Cintrón, Shades: Detroit Love Stories, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:
text: […] rain slobbered steadily past a triple-paned window in complete silence. A bomb could have gone off in the little side yard and you'd never know it if you didn't happen to look up and see the flash.
ref: 2019 December 3, Loren D. Estleman, When Old Midnight Comes Along: An Amos Walker Mystery, Forge Books, →ISBN:
qualifier: rain; etc; rain; etc
glosses: To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
raw_tags: of spit
examples: text: […] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her.
ref: 2005 April 1, Alinka Zyrmont, (Please provide the book title or journal name), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 58:
text: […] slobbering her own kisses on his neck.
ref: 2011 August 15, Tamara McHatton, Call of Duty Book One: Deadly Obligations, Desert Breeze Publishing In, →ISBN:
text: […] spit-slobbered Brussels sprouts, gloopy gravy and snotty school custard.
ref: 2014 May 1, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Really Rotten Experiments, Scholastic UK, →ISBN, page 28:
text: […] beast became friendly and wagged his tail and whined and slobbered his hand.
ref: 2016 April 3, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains (1890), Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Leaves and rain slobbered the welcome mat under our feet, […]
ref: 2022 February 14, Toni Rae, War Torn, Toni Rae Pacheco:
glosses: To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
examples: text: Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: To kiss.
glosses: To fellate.
Derived terms: slobberer
slobbery