slaumv.
/slɔːm/ dialect.
intransitive. To slobber, to blubber; also, to flatter obsequiously.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)]
drivelOE
slaverc1325
slobberc1400
drib1523
slabber1648
dribble1673
drool1810
slubberc1820
slob1860
slaum1911
1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 99 He has a dreadfu' drouth, Whilk slawmin canna put awa'.
1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. 527/1 Slaum, v., to slobber; to blubber; to smear.
Derivatives
ˈslauming adj. and vbl. n. (a) muddy, sticky; (b) slobbering, obsequiously flattering.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]
thickc888
toughc1000
cleavingc1350
gluey1382
gluish1382
gleiming1387
gummya1398
clammy1398
gleimy1398
viscosec1400
viscousc1400
emplastic?a1425
plastery?c1425
stiffc1430
clamc1440
engleimous?c1475
rawky1509
rich1535
clammish1543
limy1552
strong1560
glutinous1576
cloggy1587
emplastical1590
viscuous1603
plasterish1610
slaba1616
bound1635
viscid1635
lentous1646
spiscious1655
melleous1656
salivarious1656
glutining1658
syrupical1659
glairy1662
gummous1669
gummose1678
mellaginous1681
melligineous1684
pargety1684
sticky1688
sizy1691
dauby1697
syrupy1707
treacly?1734
glaireous1755
flabbyc1780
spissid1782
stodgy1823
waxy1835
teery1848
treacle-like1871
viscoid1877
slauming1904
gooey1906
gloopy1929
gunky1937
gungy1962
yucky1975
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective]
fikingc1230
papelarda1500
gnathonical1540
clawing1574
pickthank1575
slavering1575
claw-back1577
courting1580
fawning1585
adulatory1587
insinuating1592
insinuative1592
scraping1599
adulatorious1612
men-pleasing1615
pickthanking1621
sycophantical1632
gnathonic1637
insinuanta1639
sycophantizing1640
ingratiating1642
led1672
sycophanting1674
sycophantly1680
sycophanta1684
sycophantica1698
pickthankly1702
assiduous1725
foot-licking1786
tuft-hunting1789
sycophantish1821
favour-currying1831
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
creepy-crawly1890
slauming1904
toadyish1909
ass-licking1940
ass-kissing1942
brown-nosing1946
arse-licking1950
sucky1991
1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 506/2 The wet maks the road a bit slaumin'.
1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 506/2 Yer needn't come slawmin 'ere, for a don't believe yer. (Notts.)
1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xi. 278 I'd rather have him than your smarmy slormin sort.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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v.1787- to the end that
- to take to queem
- to take to ransom
- to take to record
- to take to spouse
- to take to stall
- to take to surgery
- to take to task
- to take to the best or worst
- to take to the bottle
- to take to the bush
- to take to the cleaners
- to take to the heather
- to take to the highway
- to take to the road
- to take to the streets
- to take to the woodshed
- to take to the worst
- to take to wing
- to take to worth
- to take together
- to take too much head
- to take too much out of
- to take too much out of a person
- to take toy at