slaveringn.
1.
a. The action of allowing saliva to run from the mouth.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [noun]
slaveringc1325
slabbering1611
slobbering1649
slobbing1860
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 143 De baavure, fro slavering.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 668 Hec salmacio, slaveryng.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2633 in Poems (1981) 97 How durst thow be sa bald to fyle this bruke..with thy foull slauering?
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Baverie, a..slauering, or driuelling at the mouth.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 83 In vulgar language it is denominated Drivelling or Slavering.
1878 L. P. Meredith Teeth (ed. 2) 61 Slavering; imperfect speech; inflamed gums.
b. plural. That which is emitted as slaver; also figurative, drivellings.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun]
slaverc1325
drivel?c1335
drivellingc1350
slaverings1535
slabber1718
drool1870
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
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxi. 13 His slauerynges ranne downe his beerd.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Chaucer Soc.) 237 (note) [They] doe pronounce such waer, slaveringes, not poems rare.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. iii. 29 Silk [was nothing] but the slaverings of Worms.
c. figurative. Extreme longing or desire. rare.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun]
ondeeOE
yearningeOE
longingOE
forlonginga1250
mourningc1300
yering13..
eye-seke?c1500
panting1580
greening1584
smackeringa1586
brame1590
languora1599
earning1603
lingering1608
yawning1635
tantalizing1640
slavering1642
longingness1651
tantalization1654
twittering1668
hankering1678
honing1725
lech1796
yearna1797
languishment1817
yearningness1839
hanker1881
tantalizingness1889
yen1906
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D2v Strutting-in knowledge, Egre slavering-After hid-skill, with every fulsome thing.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 163 Your greedy slav'ring to devour Before, 'twas in your Clutches, Pow'r.
2. figurative. Kissing. rare—1.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun] > action of kissing
kissinga1300
bassing1546
lip-labour1582
bussing1583
smouching1583
slavering1607
lip-work1631
suaviation1656
deosculation1658
osculation1658
bussa1721
basiation1879
kissage1886
mugging1890
oscularity1926
snogging1945
smash-mouth1965
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 233 An old lecherous fellow which could not keepe his lips from slauering of women.
3. attributive, as slavering-bib, slavering-bit, slavering-cloth, slavering-clout.
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c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 143 Une bavere, a slavering-clout.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 668 Hoc salmarium, slaveryngclout.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 271/1 Slaveryng clothe for chyldren, bauette.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Slabbe,..a childs Bib, or Slavering clout.
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Bits The Masticadour or Slavering-Bit.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 358 Slaaverin bib, a bit of cloth under a child's chin.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 244 The provision of slavering-bibs in some cases.
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slaveringadj.
1. Characterized or accompanied by the emission of slaver. Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [adjective] > characterized by
slobberya1398
slaveryc1430
slobbering1573
slavering1575
slabbering1583
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
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 222 The fifth..kynde of madnesse, is called the Rewmatike or slauering madnesse.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. R5 Miso..came with skowling eyes to deliuer a slauering good morrow to the two Ladies.
1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. P1 In one slauering discourse or other, [to] hang out the badge of his follie.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 56 A kind of slav'ring Letchery.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 48 In the slavering times of our Scotch Solomon.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 192 Let's have no slaverin' talk like that.
2. That slavers; allowing saliva to fall.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [adjective]
drivellingOE
slobbering1573
slavering1592
slabbering1630
foaming1717
dribbly1909
dribbling-
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D4v The third was a long leane old slauering slangrel.
1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife ii. iii Money can make a slavering tongue speak plain.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 56 An old sheep-biter..with a slavering lip.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 548 The slavering Cudden, prop'd upon his Staff.
1703 N. Rowe Ulysses i. i What Crowds Of Slav'ring,..shameful Ideots.
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers (1861) 240 She is proud of having this slavering, greedy man at her feet.
1883 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 188 The lowing and slavering droves that one sees on the roads.
Derivatives
ˈslaveringly adv.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [adverb]
slaveringly1736
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I Slaveringly (foolishly), ineptè, insulsè.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 113 The muscles of the lips [have been] slaveringly relaxed.
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