slobber
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”).
Inflected forms:
form: slobbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slobbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slobbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slobbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slobbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
gloss: A dribbly shower (of rain).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
examples: I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows.
"Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely."
[…] treading through the slobber of rain that evoked a past like morsels of unsavoury eternity, slid the motor-car showily tossing up wings of water. 'Hoi, Mag!' It was her fiancé, ruddy with twenty-five-year-old enthusiasm and grinning like an[…]
gloss: Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber.
gloss: A jellyfish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.
pos: verb
examples: All babies slobber.
gloss: To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
pos: verb
examples: […] 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.
[…] rain slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible.
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.
Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.
[…] drool slobbered from the folds around its mouth. Eyes glowed, hot coals in the darkness.
[…] rain slobbering into every nook.
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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.
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[…]
[…] 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.
[…] 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.
gloss: To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
pos: verb
tags: uncommon
examples: […] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her.
[…] slobbering her own kisses on his neck.
[…] spit-slobbered Brussels sprouts, gloopy gravy and snotty school custard.
[…] beast became friendly and wagged his tail and whined and slobbered his hand.
Leaves and rain slobbered the welcome mat under our feet, […]
gloss: To kiss.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.
gloss: To fellate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Derived words: beslobber
slobberfest
slobber knocker
slobbery
slobberer
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