slobber
Americanverb (used without object)
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slobbers,
present (3rd person singular)
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slobbered,
past participle, past
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slobbering
present participle
verb (used with object)
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slobbers,
present (3rd person singular)
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slobbered,
past participle, past
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slobbering
present participle
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to wet or make foul by slobbering.
The baby has slobbered his bib.
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to let (saliva or liquid) run from the mouth.
The baby slobbered milk on his bib.
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to utter with slobbering.
He sobbed and slobbered the bad news.
noun
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saliva or liquid dribbling from the mouth; slaver.
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mawkishly sentimental speech or actions.
verb
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to dribble (saliva, food, etc) from the mouth
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(intr) to speak or write mawkishly
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(tr) to smear with matter dribbling from the mouth
noun
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liquid or saliva spilt from the mouth
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maudlin language or behaviour
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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slobbersimple
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slobberssimple
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have slobberedperfect
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has slobberedperfect
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am slobberingprogressive
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are slobberingprogressive
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is slobberingprogressive
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have been slobberingperfect progressive
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has been slobberingperfect progressive
Past
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slobberedsimple
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had slobberedperfect
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was slobberingprogressive
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were slobberingprogressive
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had been slobberingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of slobber
1350–1400; Middle English (noun and v.), variant of slabber. See slab 2, -er 6
Explanation
To slobber is to allow spit, or saliva, to drip from your mouth. Your dog will probably slobber if you tease her with your hamburger. Another word for slobber is drool. You can use it as a verb, as in "That cupcake made me slobber," or a noun: "Wipe that slobber off your chin." To figuratively slobber over something or someone is to be overly enthusiastic or sentimental, like when your friends all slobber over your adorable new puppy.
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"They are soft, amazingly loyal and really friendly... there is some slobber."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
But she disliked the experience, which, she said, left the company “in hysterics — people twitching, slobber running down their chins, screaming from nerves and exhaustion.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
It also sees a familiar Hollywood face attached to a most unfamiliar body, enacting the kind of dramatic, prosthetically enabled transformation the movie industry likes to slobber over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Though his version of the spitball — more of a slobber ball — can be a bit overwhelming.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
He’d snort and drool and slobber and vomit.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
Axel slobbers on her lap, then lopes around the room, sniffing amethyst crystals, a conga drum and a gold Tibetan singing bowl.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
Don't teach me Dog,all eager to please; that slobbers, yaps and begs for a pat,that sits when told by its own, that's led on a lead.No, not that.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2012
Even though she has fleas, and slobbers a lot.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2011
The woman bends down and coos, and he slobbers a little and starts to cry.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010
Brickz chomps and slobbers over some ribs in his corner.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
The call-outs on social media and from the same outlets that slobbered over the actress Julia Fox when she started dating Kardashian’s ex are acknowledging the dark undercurrent to this behavior.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2022
Big, barkin’ Josh the Newfoundland slobbered around the ring, then nearly knocked over Ginger in the winner’s circle.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2021
Others piled on those who "slobbered" over Avenatti before his downfall.
From Fox News ● May 22, 2019
Then I asked how he felt about being jumped on, slobbered on or getting mud all over his couch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2017
Faye made a restless movement and her dry lips slobbered a few thick words and sighed off to a snore again.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
And unlike with her insults, Bondi rarely has to check her notes before slobbering over the imaginary perfection of men who can boost her career.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
But the movie’s almost jokey treatment of its slobbering incels, combined with Becky’s comic posturings, hemorrhage the tension.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
If you’re worried about them chewing sneakers or slobbering on the velvet sofa, it could ruin the whole weekend for you and your hosts.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019
Offering some hope for independent analysts, however, Trump’s first tweeted photo of the dog included a fairly unobstructed view of the slobbering hero’s lower half.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2019
He was not inside the mouth of a slobbering beast.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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