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slobber en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
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(countable, uncommon, uncountable) A dribbly shower (of rain).
I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows.
1891, Belgravia: A London Magazine, page 22:[…] treading through the slobber of rain that evoked a past like morsels of unsavoury eternity, slid the motor-car showily tossing up wings of water. 'Hoi, Mag!' It was her fiancé, ruddy with twenty-five-year-old enthusiasm and grinning like an[…]
1963, Harry P. Heseltine, Australian Idiom: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry, page 171:"Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely."
2014 March 27, Alan Garner, Thursbitch: From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker, Random House, →ISBN, page 93:
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(countable, uncountable) Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber.
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(countable, dated, uncountable) A jellyfish.
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(attributive, countable, form-of, uncountable) Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
slobber grass, slobber hay
Forms
Deriveds
slobbery · slobberfest · beslobber · slobber knocker
Translations (12)
ru слю́ни (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · pt baba (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · fr bave (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · cs slint (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · te చొంగ (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · fi kuola (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · bg лиги (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · es baba (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · hu nyál (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · de Geifer (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · cs sliny (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth) · de Sabber (saliva or liquid running from one's mouth)
slobber en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”).
Meanings
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To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.
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(of spit, qualifier:rain; etc; rain; etc) To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
[…] drool slobbered from the folds around its mouth. Eyes glowed, hot coals in the darkness.
2007 02, Colin Harvey, Vengeance, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 155:Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.
2006 September 12, Warrior Girl, Sfx Fantasy / Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 14:[…] rain slobbered all over the Leeds-gray façade of the student housing building. It looked as if the concrete itself was being melted away by acid, and the windows closed in quick succession as if choreographed.
2012 October 2, Viola Di Grado, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, Europa Editions, →ISBN:[…] rain slobbered all over the windows. I sat and stared at it for a few moments and considered resisting. But what was I to do in a place like this, […]
2011 April 1, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Last Train from Liguria, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:Rain slobbered on my legs, making them slick and cold, sending shivers across my skin. I skittered around a group of slow-moving tourists, cursing Afton for insisting I get up early and wear a skirt today. Finally breaking through the[…]
2016 January 5, Brenda Drake, Thief of Lies, Entangled: Teen, →ISBN:All day rain slobbered through the streets, across lawns, into my grandfather's basement. He had an irrigation pump and three garden hoses, but he couldn't keep up.
2005, The Georgia Review:[…] spit slobbered down his chin. The smell of the cheap wine and the piss that stained his pants rose up and like a cloud of misery shoving its way into my face. I tried not to breathe.
2019 August 5, Esperanza M. Cintrón, Shades: Detroit Love Stories, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:[…] rain slobbered steadily past a triple-paned window in complete silence. A bomb could have gone off in the little side yard and you'd never know it if you didn't happen to look up and see the flash.
2019 December 3, Loren D. Estleman, When Old Midnight Comes Along: An Amos Walker Mystery, Forge Books, →ISBN:[…] rain slobbered over New York. Fifty-eighth Street's construction debris ran in murky rivulets. Martin, Bagel and I walked single file on wood planks through Avon's rough board tunnel.
1980, Elaine Suss, A Money Marriage: A Novel, →ISBN:[…] rain slobbering into every nook.
2009 March 26, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, Penguin UK, →ISBN:[…] rain slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible.
1992, LaJoyce Martin, The Other Side of Jordan, →ISBN:
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(uncommon) To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
[…] slobbering her own kisses on his neck.
2011 August 15, Tamara McHatton, Call of Duty Book One: Deadly Obligations, Desert Breeze Publishing In, →ISBN:[…] spit-slobbered Brussels sprouts, gloopy gravy and snotty school custard.
2014 May 1, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Really Rotten Experiments, Scholastic UK, →ISBN, page 28:[…] beast became friendly and wagged his tail and whined and slobbered his hand.
2016 April 3, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains (1890), Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:[…] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her.
2005 April 1, Alinka Zyrmont, (Please provide the book title or journal name), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 58:Leaves and rain slobbered the welcome mat under our feet, […]
2022 February 14, Toni Rae, War Torn, Toni Rae Pacheco:
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(colloquial) To kiss.
Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 165:
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(slang, transitive) To fellate.
Forms
Deriveds
slobbery · slobberer
Synonyms
slaver · drool
Translations (29)
fr baver (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · sh balaviti (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · ru пуска́ть слюни (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es ensalivar (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es hacérsele la boca agua (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · pl ślinić się (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es babear (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · gl babar (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · sh sliniti (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es hacérsele agua la boca (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es babosear (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · pt babar (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es hacérsele la boca un agua (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · mi hāwareware (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · es salivar (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · hu nyáladzik (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · cmn 流口水 (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · fi kuolata (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · bg лигавя се (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · ro curge bale (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · de geifern (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · ro saliva (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · de sabbern (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · cs slintat (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · yue 流口水 (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · hu nyálzik (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · el σαλιαρίζω (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · hu csorog/folyik/kicsordul a nyála (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth) · nl kwijlen (to allow saliva or liquid to ooze from one's mouth)