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slobber

/ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/

slobber noun: liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth. Also the attributive form of slobbers.

Noun

slobber (countable and uncountable, plural slobbers)

  1. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
    • There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
  2. (uncommon) 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
    • "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
  3. Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber.
  4. (dated) A jellyfish.

Verb

slobber (third-person singular simple present slobbers, present participle slobbering, simple past and past participle slobbered)

  1. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.
    • All babies slobber.
    Synonyms:
    drool, slaver
  2. (rain, etc) To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
    • […] 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 slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible.1992, LaJoyce Martin, The Other Side of Jordan, →ISBN
  3. (uncommon) To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
    • […] 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
    • […] slobbering her own kisses on his neck.2011 August 15, Tamara McHatton, Call of Duty Book One: Deadly Obligations, Desert Breeze Publishing In, →ISBN
  4. (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
  5. (slang, transitive) To fellate.

Also used as

slobber is also the attributive form of slobbers.

slobber meaning in Telugu

slobber in Telugu

saliva or liquid running from one's mouth
చొంగ coṅga

Examples of slobber in a sentence

  • […] 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.1963, Harry P. Heseltine, Australian Idiom: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry, page 171:
  • All day rain slobbered through the streets, across lawns, into my grandfather's basement.2005, The Georgia Review:
  • Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.2006 September 12, Warrior Girl, Sfx Fantasy / Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 14:
  • […] drool slobbered from the folds around its mouth.2007 02, Colin Harvey, Vengeance, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 155:

All 20 example sentences with slobber

Synonyms of slobber

Forms of slobber

Noun
pluralslobbers
Verb
third-person singular presentslobbers
present participleslobbering
past participleslobbered
pastslobbered

Origin of slobber

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”).

Words formed from slobber

Phrases with slobber

Words that rhyme with slobber

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Questions about slobber

What does slobber mean?
Slobber means liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
What is slobber in Telugu?
Slobber in Telugu is చొంగ (coṅga). See Slobber meaning in Telugu.
How do you use slobber in a sentence?
[…] 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.
What part of speech is slobber?
Slobber can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce slobber?
Slobber is pronounced /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of slobber?
The plural of slobber is slobbers.

Words near slobber in the dictionary

  1. slobbed
  2. slobbed about
  3. slobbed around
  4. slobbed it
  5. slobbed out
  6. slobber
  7. slobber knocker
  8. slobber knockers
  9. slobber-knocker
  10. slobber-knockers
  11. slobbered

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