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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)

  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]...

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Questions about slabbered

What is slabbered the simple past and past participle of?
Slabbered is the simple past and past participle of slabber.

Words near slabbered in the dictionary

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

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