slabbered
slabbered is the simple past and past participle of slabber.
Meaning of slabber
Verb
slabber (third-person singular simple present slabbers, present participle slabbering, simple past and past participle slabbered)
- To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
- To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
- 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...
- 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]...
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- Slabbered is the simple past and past participle of slabber.
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