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† slabber-sauce Obs.
[f. slabber v. Cf. the earlier slibber-sauce.]
A sauce, or similar preparation, composed of various ingredients mixed in a sloppy mass. Also fig.
1577Fulke Confut. Purg. 27 Which will not be filled vp with the slabbersawce of mens merits and satisfactions. 1581Test. 12 Patriarches 10 b, The Egiptian woman did much to him..by offering him slabersawces. 1621Sanderson Serm. I. 202 As absurd..as it would be for a man to accustome himself to no other diet but slabber-sauces, and druggs. 1788A. Falconbridge African Slave Trade 21 A sauce, composed of palm-oil, mixed with flour, water, and pepper, which the sailors call slabber-sauce. |