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Slobber   /slˈɑbər/   Listen
noun
Slobber  n.  
1.
See Slabber.
2.
(Zool.) A jellyfish. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
pl. (Vet.) Salivation.


verb
Slobber  v. t. & v. i.  See Slabber.


Slabber  v. i.  (past & past part. slabbered; pres. part. slabbering)  (Written also slaver, and slobber)  To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.





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"Slobber" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the blocks did not dry out until they were at least 28 days old. In laying the blocks a thin lath was used to keep the mortar back about one inch from the face. This precaution will prevent much labor in cleaning the walls from mortar slobber. ...
— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette
... Idiot," said Pierre an hour afterwards, "we're going to leave Fort o' God and make for Rupert House. You've a dragging leg, you're gone in the savvy, you have to balance yourself with your hands as you waddle along, and you slobber when you talk; but you've got to cut away with us quick across the Beaver Plains, and Christ'll have to help you if we can't. That's what the Factor says, and that's how the case ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... cleanliness and civilisation. Yet, in spite of this, some of the modes in which they delight to honour even the passing stranger are far from acceptable. Among the least objectionable of these is the encouragement of their children to seize and slobber over his hands, the only manner of avoiding which is to keep them thrust deeply into his pockets—an odious custom elsewhere, but here indispensable. Before bidding a last farewell to the house of my entertainer, I must pay a grateful tribute to ...
— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot
... were but a few pages written on. It came to me quite early in your life that you were not going to be the model heroine. I was looking for the picture baby, the clean, thoughtful baby, with its magical, mystical smile. I wrote poetry about you, Robina, but you would slobber and howl. Your little nose was always having to be wiped, and somehow the poetry did not seem to fit you. You were at your best when you were asleep, but you would not even sleep when it was expected of you. I think, ...
— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome
... makes gentlemen. The other makes experts. It is hard for an expert to be a gentleman. They don't have gentlemen in Germany. No such word in their language. It is a nation of experts, but that's precisely the reason it should be feared. Why, education would teach a German not to slobber at his meals. ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry


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