slavern.¹

/ˈslavə/

Forms: Middle English slavere, Middle English slavyr, 1500s–1600s slauer, 1500s– slaver.

Etymology: Related to slaver v. Compare Icelandic slafur in the same sense.

a. Saliva issuing or falling from the mouth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun]

slaverc1325

drivel?c1335

drivellingc1350

slaverings1535

slabber1718

drool1870

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 143 Pur sauver ses dras de baavure, from slavere.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 458/2 Slavyr, orexis.

1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 79 The leafe is hote: and holden vnder ones tethe, bryngeth furth slauer.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 23 To shake hiz earz twyse or thryse wyth the blud & the slauer aboout his fiznamy.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 329 The froth or slauer of an horse mouth.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 136 That a Toad communicates its venom..by the humiditie and slaver of its mouth.

1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 106 Of all mad Creatures..It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 141 A venomous slaver, which, they suppose, issues from the animal's [Salamander's] mouth.

1820 Ld. Byron Blues i. 47 I'd inoculate sooner my wife with the slaver Of a dog when gone rabid.

1834 B. Disraeli Revolutionary Epick i. xlix. 83 It spat, and with its burning slaver washed The cross from off my front.

1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair ii. iv Ruthven, with the slaver of his rage upon his mouth.

b. figurative. Drivel, nonsense; also, gross flattery.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

windc1290

trotevalea1300

follyc1300

jangle1340

jangleryc1374

tongue1382

fablec1384

clapa1420

babbling?c1430

clackc1440

pratinga1470

waste?a1475

clattera1500

trattle1513

babble?a1525

tattlea1529

tittle-tattlea1529

chatc1530

babblery1532

bibble-babble1532

slaverings1535

trittle-trattle1563

prate?1574

babblement1595

pribble-prabble1595

pribble1603

morologya1614

pibble-pabblea1616

sounda1616

spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

vaniloquence1623

vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

blateration1656

onology1670

whittie-whattiea1687

stultiloquence1721

claver1722

blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

tattlement1837

slabber1840

gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun]

fickling?c1225

flattering?c1225

oluhningc1225

glozec1290

glozing1297

losengery1303

blandishingc1305

blandingc1315

flatteryc1320

glotheringc1325

soothinga1400

honey word?1406

faginga1425

flatrisec1440

smekingc1440

blandishc1475

blandiment?1510

glavering1545

coggingc1555

good1563

milksop1577

court holy water1583

glavery1583

blandishment1591

lipsalve1591

court holy bread1592

flatter1593

colloguing1596

sooth1597

daub?1602

blandation1605

lullaby1611

court-water1616

butter1618

blandiloquy1623

oil1645

court-element1649

courtshipment1649

courtship1655

blandiloquence1656

court-creama1657

daubing1656

fleecha1700

Spanish money1699

cajole1719

whiting1721

palaver1733

butter boat1747

flummery1749

treacle1771

Spanish coin1785

blancmange1790

blarney1796

soft corn1814

whillywha1816

carney1818

buttering up1819

soft soap1821

flam1825

slaver1825

soft solder1836

soothing syrup1839

soft-soaping1840

plámás1853

sawder1854

soap1854

salve1859

taffy1878

plámásing1897

flannel1927

smarm1937

flannelling1945

sweet talk1945

schmear1950

smarming1950

1825 S. T. Coleridge Charac. 68 The coward whine and Frenchified Slaver and slang of the other side.

1862 Times 2 Apr. A modest man, one to whom such slaver must be loathsome.

1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 55 Some people may look upon this correspondence as a lot of squit and slaver (nonsense).

2. Mucus-slime of fish or worms. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > mucus

mucus1597

slaver1650

mucous canal1859

mucoduct1875

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > mucus

slaver1650

1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 293 She got nothing but the slaver of worms, or scum of fishes.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 46 In the Eele..is no Sex visible, yet by their slaver..do they produce their young.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

slavern.²

Brit.

/ˈsleɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈsleɪvər/

Etymology: < slave n.¹ + -er suffix¹.

1. A vessel engaged in slave-traffic.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > involved in slave trade

Guinea-man1695

slave-ship1796

slaver1830

Guinea ship1855

slave-trader1874

blackbirder1880

picaroon1896

1830 R. Walsh Notices of Brazil II. 482 This was opposed by the mate of the slaver.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 722 The proceeds of ships..condemned as slavers.

1886 Athenæum 13 Nov. 627/3 They were in the boats creeping up to a slaver.

attributive and in other combinations.1886 Athenæum 13 Nov. 627/3 The story of his slaver hunting carries one back to boyish recollections.1897 Daily News 30 Dec. 5 As stout a slaver-skipper as ever kept niggers under hatches.

2. One who deals or traffics in, or owns, slaves.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves

knave-seller1552

mango1602

Guinea merchant1719

slave-merchant1746

Guinea-man1756

Guinea trader1756

soul driver1774

Negro-dealer1799

slave-trader1813

nigger jockey1838

Negro-hunter1839

slaver1842

fleshmonger1845

man-dealer1860

blackbirder1876

1842 H. W. Longfellow Quadroon Girl iv The Slaver's thumb was on the latch.

1862 Industrial Mag. Feb. 52 In America the slavers themselves make it an open boast.

1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 145/2 That there was no worse slaver than the present Sultan of Turkey.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

slaverv.

/ˈslavə/

Forms: Middle English– slaver, Middle English slawer, slavyr, 1500s–1600s slauer.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: apparently of Scandinavian origin: compare Icelandic slafra in the same sense, related to Low German slabbern , etc., slabber v.

a. intransitive. To let the saliva run from the mouth; to slabber. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)]

drivelOE

slaverc1325

slobberc1400

drib1523

slabber1648

dribble1673

drool1810

slubberc1820

slob1860

slaum1911

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 143 L'enfaunt bave de nature, slaveryt of kynde.

c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 784 His mouthe slavers, his tethe rotes.

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 668 Salmare, to slawer.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 458/2 Slaveron, orexo.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 720/2 Fye on the knave, arte thou nat a shamed to slaver lyke a yonge chylde.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 222 He driueleth and slauereth at the mouth commonly.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 83 You shall euer haue a horse that is so cut,..continually slauering, because the moysture which commeth into his mouth, cannot be helde in.

1667 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. vi It may be also, when they take Tobacco, they slaver on the shorn side of their Chin.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 194 All of them slaver'd and frequently chang'd colour.

1797 T. Wright Autobiogr. (1864) 87 He chewed tobacco, and sitting next my companion, slavered and spat upon his coat.

1841 W. M. Thackeray Men & Coats in Wks. (1886) XXIII. 366 The man was bleeding at the nose, and slavering at the mouth.

1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse xxvi. 228 With lips that slavered with their hate.

b. figurative. To drivel; to fawn. Also with it.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]

chattera1250

drivelc1390

clatter1401

chatc1440

smattera1450

pratec1460

blaver1461

babble?1504

blether1524

boblec1530

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

fable1579

tinkle1638

whiffle1706

slaver1730

doitera1790

jaunder1808

haver1816

maunder1816

blather1825

yatter1825

blat1846

bibble-babble1888

flap-doodle1893

twiddle1893

spiel1894

rot1896

blither1903

to run off at the mouth1908

drool1923

twiddle-twaddle1925

crap1940

natter1942

yack1950

yacker1961

yacket1969

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

1730 J. Swift Traulus I 3 Why must he sputter, spaul and slaver it In vain, against the People's Fav'rite?

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. i. 7 Humour turns changeling, and slavers in an insipid grin.

1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables iv. xxvii It is a..frog-like language which crawls, slavers.

1894 H. Caine Manxman 135 He thought..of his uncle and how he had snubbed and then slavered over him.

2. To issue as or like slaver.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > in drops or trickles

trinkle1513

trickle1526

slaver1582

strain1590

weep1600

exstill1657

treacle1899

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit liquid [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > as or like slaver

slaver1582

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 62 I saw flesh bluddye toe slauer, When the cob had maunged the gobets.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. vi. 29 in Wks. II Still the bottle-ale slauereth, and the tabacco stinketh!

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ix. 103 Their gums are seen..with spittle slavering forth.

a. transitive. To wet with saliva; to slobber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle

spitc950

sputea1225

bespetea1240

bedravel1377

spouta1382

bespitc1384

beslobber1393

spew1526

slabber1579

beslaver1589

slaver1591

spittle1596

bespawl1602

drivel1609

bedribble1620

slop1696

bedrivel1721

slake1808

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxiii. xcix. 275 That [meat] they left, they did so file and slauer, As few could brooke the sight.

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. D^v Thou wast not made to slauer her faire lips With thy dead rewmy chops.

1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 134 With white froth his Gown is slaver'd o're.

1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 135 Provided it be slavered over with a froth of philosophy.

1865 M. E. Braddon Only a Clod i To..slaver his hand with its flapping tongue.

b. figurative. To fondle, to flatter, in a disgusting or sycophantic manner.

ΘΚΠ

flatter1340

to claw the back ofc1394

to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422

clawc1425

to claw by the sleeve1509

to claw by the backa1542

fawna1568

to make or pay (one's) court to1590

adulate1612

hug1622

sycophant1637

to make up to1701

to whip it in with1702

cultivate1706

incense1708

to wheedle in with1726

to grandfather up1747

slaver1794

toad1802

to play up to ——1809

nut1819

toady1827

bootlick1846

to suck up to1860

lickspittle1886

jolly1890

bum-suck1918

arse-lick1919

to cosy up to1937

brown-nose1948

ass-kiss1951

ass-lick1962

love-bomb1976

1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen III. 183 She wondered Mr. Runnington was not ashamed to be slavering such a great girl.

1832 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 238 This eagerness to slaver the arch-foe of the cause.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vi. 270 Is it that the Devil slavers them So excellently, that we come to doubt Who's strongest?

4. To utter in a slavering fashion. Also with out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say in other sort of manner

rifta1400

abraida1500

rumblec1520

mince1549

roll1561

slaver1599

troll1631

yawn1718

buzz1763

gurgle1805

namby-pamby1812

sibilate1837

ripple1890

nicker1929

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered i. 7 You will needes..slauer out your follies in view of the world.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xii. 266 Slavering portentous stories about malcontent country gentlemen.

Derivatives

ˈslaverer n. one who slavers; also figurative, a servile flatterer.

ΚΠ

1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια iii. v My Slauerer was at his Tobacco.

1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 71 Fashionable life has been exalted above its just and proper level, and depressed below it, by the slaverers and the vituperators.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

n.¹c1325

n.²1830

v.c1325

单词	slaver
释义	slavern.¹ /ˈslavə/ Forms: Middle English slavere, Middle English slavyr, 1500s–1600s slauer, 1500s– slaver. Etymology: Related to slaver v. Compare Icelandic slafur in the same sense. 1. a. Saliva issuing or falling from the mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] slaverc1325 drivel?c1335 drivellingc1350 slaverings1535 slabber1718 drool1870 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 143 Pur sauver ses dras de baavure, from slavere. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 458/2 Slavyr, orexis. 1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 79 The leafe is hote: and holden vnder ones tethe, bryngeth furth slauer. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 23 To shake hiz earz twyse or thryse wyth the blud & the slauer aboout his fiznamy. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 329 The froth or slauer of an horse mouth. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 136 That a Toad communicates its venom..by the humiditie and slaver of its mouth. View more context for this quotation 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 106 Of all mad Creatures..It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 141 A venomous slaver, which, they suppose, issues from the animal's [Salamander's] mouth. 1820 Ld. Byron Blues i. 47 I'd inoculate sooner my wife with the slaver Of a dog when gone rabid. 1834 B. Disraeli Revolutionary Epick i. xlix. 83 It spat, and with its burning slaver washed The cross from off my front. 1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair ii. iv Ruthven, with the slaver of his rage upon his mouth. b. figurative. Drivel, nonsense; also, gross flattery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] fickling?c1225 flattering?c1225 oluhningc1225 glozec1290 glozing1297 losengery1303 blandishingc1305 blandingc1315 flatteryc1320 glotheringc1325 soothinga1400 honey word?1406 faginga1425 flatrisec1440 smekingc1440 blandishc1475 blandiment?1510 glavering1545 coggingc1555 good1563 milksop1577 court holy water1583 glavery1583 blandishment1591 lipsalve1591 court holy bread1592 flatter1593 colloguing1596 sooth1597 daub?1602 blandation1605 lullaby1611 court-water1616 butter1618 blandiloquy1623 oil1645 court-element1649 courtshipment1649 courtship1655 blandiloquence1656 court-creama1657 daubing1656 fleecha1700 Spanish money1699 cajole1719 whiting1721 palaver1733 butter boat1747 flummery1749 treacle1771 Spanish coin1785 blancmange1790 blarney1796 soft corn1814 whillywha1816 carney1818 buttering up1819 soft soap1821 flam1825 slaver1825 soft solder1836 soothing syrup1839 soft-soaping1840 plámás1853 sawder1854 soap1854 salve1859 taffy1878 plámásing1897 flannel1927 smarm1937 flannelling1945 sweet talk1945 schmear1950 smarming1950 1825 S. T. Coleridge Charac. 68 The coward whine and Frenchified Slaver and slang of the other side. 1862 Times 2 Apr. A modest man, one to whom such slaver must be loathsome. 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 55 Some people may look upon this correspondence as a lot of squit and slaver (nonsense). 2. Mucus-slime of fish or worms. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > mucus mucus1597 slaver1650 mucous canal1859 mucoduct1875 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > mucus slaver1650 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 293 She got nothing but the slaver of worms, or scum of fishes. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 46 In the Eele..is no Sex visible, yet by their slaver..do they produce their young. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). slavern.² Brit. /ˈsleɪvə/, U.S. /ˈsleɪvər/ Etymology: < slave n.¹ + -er suffix¹. 1. A vessel engaged in slave-traffic. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > involved in slave trade Guinea-man1695 slave-ship1796 slave-ship1796 slaver1830 Guinea ship1855 slave-trader1874 blackbirder1880 picaroon1896 1830 R. Walsh Notices of Brazil II. 482 This was opposed by the mate of the slaver. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 722 The proceeds of ships..condemned as slavers. 1886 Athenæum 13 Nov. 627/3 They were in the boats creeping up to a slaver. attributive and in other combinations.1886 Athenæum 13 Nov. 627/3 The story of his slaver hunting carries one back to boyish recollections.1897 Daily News 30 Dec. 5 As stout a slaver-skipper as ever kept niggers under hatches. 2. One who deals or traffics in, or owns, slaves. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves knave-seller1552 mango1602 Guinea merchant1719 slave-merchant1746 Guinea-man1756 Guinea trader1756 soul driver1774 Negro-dealer1799 slave-trader1813 nigger jockey1838 Negro-hunter1839 slaver1842 fleshmonger1845 man-dealer1860 blackbirder1876 1842 H. W. Longfellow Quadroon Girl iv The Slaver's thumb was on the latch. 1862 Industrial Mag. Feb. 52 In America the slavers themselves make it an open boast. 1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 145/2 That there was no worse slaver than the present Sultan of Turkey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). slaverv. /ˈslavə/ Forms: Middle English– slaver, Middle English slawer, slavyr, 1500s–1600s slauer. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: apparently of Scandinavian origin: compare Icelandic slafra in the same sense, related to Low German slabbern , etc., slabber v. 1. a. intransitive. To let the saliva run from the mouth; to slabber. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] drivelOE slaverc1325 slobberc1400 drib1523 slabber1648 dribble1673 drool1810 slubberc1820 slob1860 slaum1911 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 143 L'enfaunt bave de nature, slaveryt of kynde. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 784 His mouthe slavers, his tethe rotes. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 668 Salmare, to slawer. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 458/2 Slaveron, orexo. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 720/2 Fye on the knave, arte thou nat a shamed to slaver lyke a yonge chylde. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 222 He driueleth and slauereth at the mouth commonly. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 83 You shall euer haue a horse that is so cut,..continually slauering, because the moysture which commeth into his mouth, cannot be helde in. 1667 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. vi It may be also, when they take Tobacco, they slaver on the shorn side of their Chin. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 194 All of them slaver'd and frequently chang'd colour. 1797 T. Wright Autobiogr. (1864) 87 He chewed tobacco, and sitting next my companion, slavered and spat upon his coat. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Men & Coats in Wks. (1886) XXIII. 366 The man was bleeding at the nose, and slavering at the mouth. 1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse xxvi. 228 With lips that slavered with their hate. b. figurative. To drivel; to fawn. Also with it. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 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 1730 J. Swift Traulus I 3 Why must he sputter, spaul and slaver it In vain, against the People's Fav'rite? 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. i. 7 Humour turns changeling, and slavers in an insipid grin. 1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables iv. xxvii It is a..frog-like language which crawls, slavers. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 135 He thought..of his uncle and how he had snubbed and then slavered over him. 2. To issue as or like slaver. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > in drops or trickles trinkle1513 trickle1526 slaver1582 strain1590 weep1600 exstill1657 treacle1899 the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit liquid [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > as or like slaver slaver1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 62 I saw flesh bluddye toe slauer, When the cob had maunged the gobets. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. vi. 29 in Wks. II Still the bottle-ale slauereth, and the tabacco stinketh! 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ix. 103 Their gums are seen..with spittle slavering forth. 3. a. transitive. To wet with saliva; to slobber. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle spitc950 sputea1225 bespetea1240 bedravel1377 spouta1382 bespitc1384 beslobber1393 spew1526 slabber1579 beslaver1589 slaver1591 spittle1596 bespawl1602 drivel1609 bedribble1620 slop1696 bedrivel1721 slake1808 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxiii. xcix. 275 That [meat] they left, they did so file and slauer, As few could brooke the sight. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. D^v Thou wast not made to slauer her faire lips With thy dead rewmy chops. 1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 134 With white froth his Gown is slaver'd o're. 1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 135 Provided it be slavered over with a froth of philosophy. 1865 M. E. Braddon Only a Clod i To..slaver his hand with its flapping tongue. b. figurative. To fondle, to flatter, in a disgusting or sycophantic manner. 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 with [verb (transitive)] flatter1340 to claw the back ofc1394 to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422 clawc1425 to claw by the sleeve1509 to claw by the backa1542 fawna1568 to make or pay (one's) court to1590 adulate1612 hug1622 sycophant1637 to make up to1701 to whip it in with1702 cultivate1706 incense1708 to wheedle in with1726 to grandfather up1747 slaver1794 toad1802 to play up to ——1809 nut1819 toady1827 bootlick1846 to suck up to1860 lickspittle1886 jolly1890 bum-suck1918 arse-lick1919 to cosy up to1937 brown-nose1948 ass-kiss1951 ass-lick1962 love-bomb1976 1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen III. 183 She wondered Mr. Runnington was not ashamed to be slavering such a great girl. 1832 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 238 This eagerness to slaver the arch-foe of the cause. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vi. 270 Is it that the Devil slavers them So excellently, that we come to doubt Who's strongest? 4. To utter in a slavering fashion. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say in other sort of manner rifta1400 abraida1500 rumblec1520 mince1549 roll1561 slaver1599 troll1631 yawn1718 buzz1763 gurgle1805 namby-pamby1812 sibilate1837 ripple1890 nicker1929 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered i. 7 You will needes..slauer out your follies in view of the world. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xii. 266 Slavering portentous stories about malcontent country gentlemen. Derivatives ˈslaverer n. one who slavers; also figurative, a servile flatterer. ΚΠ 1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια iii. v My Slauerer was at his Tobacco. 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 71 Fashionable life has been exalted above its just and proper level, and depressed below it, by the slaverers and the vituperators. 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