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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slobber
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Weber's dog slobbered all over my hand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A big-fisted hulk slobbering over a Big Mac.
▪ But he repulsed the most slobbering front-row people.
▪ He slobbered over her foot in appreciation.
▪ He fed her the rest of his toast and made slobbering sounds while she chewed, his gray eyes excited.
▪ He was getting old and Isis noticed that he was slobbering.
▪ Why is Phil always slobbering on the reviews pages?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
slobber

Slabber \Slab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slabbering.] [OE. slaberen; akin to LG. & D. slabbern, G. schlabbern, LG. & D. slabben, G. schlabben, Icel. slafr

  1. Cf. Slaver, Slobber, Slubber.] To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slobber

c.1400, probably of imitative origin; compare Frisian slobberje "to slurp," Middle Low German slubberen "slurp," Middle Dutch overslubberen "wade through a ditch." Related: Slobbered; slobbering. As noun from c.1400 as "mud, slime," 1755 as "saliva." Congreve has slabber (v.), from Middle Dutch slabberen.

Wiktionary
slobber

n. 1 Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth. 2 (context dated English) A jellyfish. vb. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.

WordNet
slobber

n. saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, dribble, drivel]

slobber

v. let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, dribble]

Usage examples of "slobber".

Her dextrier puckered up her mouth to spitsear when the enormous moth crossed the air between them too fast even to see and clasped the handlingers to it, slobbering like a famished man.

The chariot had reached the house, whose broken dripstones were slobbering torrents of water.

Bellman joined him, Heep with a bookhound on a leash which sniffed the ground and whimpered and yelped noisily, chops slobbering.

Benedict made that mewing sound again, shaking his head weakly, staring at the two slobbering animals ahead of him.

The girl went backward, walking like an automaton, and Khemsa reeled drunkenly after her, hands vainly outstretched, groaning, slobbering in his pain, his feet moving heavily like dead things.

The mulies shoved their heads into the buckets, slobbering and grunting with need.

The disease in short arm hath a gimmick for going places unlike certain unfortunate viruses who are fated to languish unconsummate in the guts of a tick or a jungle mosquito, or the saliva of a dying jackal slobbering silver under the desert moon.

Now he would have to listen to her complaints and her petty gossip when he wanted to read, or just as bad, be disturbed by the slobbering stereovision serials she favored.

It seemed that something big and tentacled had slobbered its way out of Lake Washington and onto the deck of the Route 520 bridge, the floating one connecting Bellevue and Downtown.

After eating a couple of cars, the thing had slobbered its way back into the water.

His fingers were against her skin, pushing into her as he slobbered against her face, his mouth slack and wet.

Paula shuddered and gripped the edge of the sink as she remembered how his hands had wandered so roughly over her body, how his horrible wet mouth had slobbered against hers, how his weight had trapped her under him.

Taking an example at random, the pretty divots of her armpits, so aromatic and erogenous, so often praised and slobbered over, clearly such excellent value these might have to go.

It's also no surprise that cane growers are turning for a bailout to their favorite slobbering lapdogs, the state politicians in Tallahassee.

You're going to go down into the pub disguised like a common workman and get drunk and hang out with the people there and get slobbering drunk so you can worm your way into their confidence because they'll see you're just an ordinary guy, especially after they see you pissing about a gallon and falling down a few times and maybe even barfing once or twice.