slabber
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of slabber
C16: variant of slobber
Example Sentences
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Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth, which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half-way down to the ground.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
To DRABLE, DRAIBLE, v. a. to slabber; to befoul.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
You think you're in the country, where great lubberly brothers slabber and kiss one another when they meet, like a call of sergeants.
From The Way of the World by William Congreve
All the more expensive equipment that is necessary is a crutcher, a tank to hold the lye, frames, a slabber or cutting table, and a press.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen
In modern French bave means "drivel," "slabbering," and the verb baver "to slabber," but the bib is now called bavette.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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