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beslobber

American

[bih-slob-er] / bɪˈslɒb ər /

verb (used with object)

to slobber all over (something).

The child beslobbered his bib.

Etymology

Origin of beslobber

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; be-, slobber

Example Sentences

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I had, it appears, about Heiberg's Klister and Malle, an inseparable betrothed couple, used what was, for that matter, an undoubtedly Kierkegaardian expression, viz., to beslobber a relation.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

This does not mean that he should exaggerate the merits of every fresh work, nor beslobber with praise every ambitious quill-driver.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

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