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slabber

/ˈslæbə(ɹ)/

slabber verb: to let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.

Verb

slabber (third-person singular simple present slabbers, present participle slabbering, simple past and past participle slabbered)

  1. (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
  2. (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
  3. (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
    • At the ſame time he clap'd me on the Back, and ſlabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, vvith his great Tongue.1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a...
  4. (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
    • The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.1878, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon]...

Noun (1)

slabber (countable and uncountable, plural slabbers)

  1. Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.

Noun (2)

slabber (plural slabbers)

  1. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
    • log slabber
  2. A slabbing machine.
  3. Someone who makes slabs.

Noun (3) capitalized: Slabber

Slabber (plural Slabbers)

  1. (US, informal) An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.

slabber meaning in Urdu

slabber in Urdu

رال بہنا

Forms of slabber

Verb
third-person singular presentslabbers
present participleslabbering
past participleslabbered
pastslabbered
alternative formslobber
alternative formslubber
Noun
pluralslabbers
pluralSlabbers

Origin of slabber

From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.

From slab + -er.

Words formed from slabber

Words that rhyme with slabber

Questions about slabber

What does slabber mean?
Slabber means to let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
What is slabber in Urdu?
Slabber in Urdu is رال بہنا. See Slabber meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is slabber?
Slabber can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce slabber?
Slabber is pronounced /ˈslæbə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of slabber?
The past tense of slabber is slabbered.

Words near slabber in the dictionary

  1. slab-tracking
  2. slab-tracks
  3. Slabaugh
  4. Slabaughs
  5. slabbed
  6. slabber
  7. slabbered
  8. slabberer
  9. slabberers
  10. slabbering
  11. slabbers

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