slobbern.
/ˈslɒbə/, U.S. /ˈslɑbər/ 1. † b. The entrails of a fish or another animal. Obsolete.
a. Mud, slime, ooze; filth. Cf. sense 5. rare after 16th cent.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun]
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > mud
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > slime
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 459 Slobur, or slobere, feces immunde.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 202 In the Slober & the slicche slongyn to londe þere he lay.
2015 A. Titley tr. M. Ó Cadhain Dirty Dust ii. 53 If you want to gather that stuff you have to go out into the deep sodden sedgy slobber and get your feet wet.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 459 Slobur, or blobur of fysshe and oþer lyke, burbulium.
2.
a. Saliva or other fluid drooled from the mouth.
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1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Slobber, slaver.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Slobber, liquor spilled, slaver.
1860 Independent Democrat (Elyria, Ohio) 26 Sept. See the wretch as he approaches: his knees knocking and the slobber running down his jaws.
c1860 ‘A Regular Slangsman’ Flash Mirror (new ed.) 12 See her whenever you would, she was all snot and slobber, like a calf's head on a hot summer's day.
1902 C. G. Harper Cambr., Ely & King's Lynn Road 73 Lips running with the thin slobber of the drunkard.
1935 J. Hanley Furys i. 19 His coat and vest..was all crumpled, and stained with slobber and the remains of meals.
2019 @samaanderson10 19 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 1 Nov. 2019) I love this dog so much. But definitely glad he's my aunt's and not mine because he has so much slobber it's insane.
b. In plural with singular agreement. Any of various conditions in domesticated animals marked by excessive salivation, with causes ranging from mycotoxicosis in horses and cattle to malocclusion of the teeth in rabbits and other small mammals. Also with the.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of rodents > [noun]
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1841 New Eng. Farmer 28 July 29/2 We have seen a horse that had broken into a field of clover and eaten till he brought on the slobbers.
1889 K. W. Knight Book of Rabbit (ed. 2) 274 That unpleasant and often fatal complaint, slobbers—i.e., running at the mouth.
1922 Pacific Poultryman Dec. 44/2 Do not feed too much at the start and do not feed it wet, as it will give them slobbers and pot belly.
1989 W. M. Hagler & W. J. Croom in P. R. Cheeke Toxicants Plant Origin I. x. 261 Once the fungus causing slobbers was isolated from moldy hay, it was quickly recognized as an unusual pathogen of red clover.
2013 J. Mayer & T. M. Donnelly Clin. Vet. Advisor: Birds & Exotic Pets i. 302 (caption) Wet fur around the mouth and chin (slobbers) in a chinchilla is caused by increased salivation secondary to dental disease.
c. A kiss; esp. one that is conspicuously wet and excessively enthusiastic.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun]
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1884 ‘G. L.’ Loved i. 15 Laura had long ago broken in Jack not to expect a ‘cousinly embrace’, as he called it, for she had an innate dislike to meaningless slobbers, and a quiet shake of the hand she considered more honest.
1936 L. Duncan Over Wall xi. 165 They'll let you give him a hug and a slobber.
2014 Arts & Bk. Rev. (Nexis) 15 Mar. 54 A kiss is so much more than a sign of mutual allure. The options seem to range from the chaste, cheek-brushing peck-kiss of spasmodic friendly companionship to the squelchy, gluey slobber.
d. Foolish, sentimental, or fawning speech or writing; nonsense, drivel.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]
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1886 Hull Daily Mail 25 June (Special ed.) 2/5 The description of last night's meeting..is a composition of unequalled slobber... The writer riots in compliments, badly phrased, and mixes up in the greatest confusion matters of logic and fact.
1931 Q. Pollack Democracy's Mistress 282 Another of her editorial friends..read all the slush belatedly written about her ‘romantic and dramatic life’... Her memory didn't need such slobber.
2017 @Kingoboy666 2 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 29 Aug. 2019) Don't know why any person with half a gram of intelligence would entertain his utter slobber. Absolute joke of a man.
3. Sleet or sleety rain; a shower of this or of rain. Now rare and historical.In quot. 2003 in a work of historical fiction.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > sleety rain
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1841 T. Carlyle Let. 15 Jan. in Atlantic Monthly (1898) Oct. 450/2 For a week past there has been nothing but sleet, rime and slobber, the streets half an inch deep with slush.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Slobber, thin, cold rain, mixed with snow; a sloppy sleet.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 350 ‘A slobber o' reen an' snow’..is a slight downfall of rain mixed with snow.
1891 Belgravia Sept. 22 I looked about me in the slobber of rain.
2003 A. Garner Thursbitch (2004) 93 Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
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1849 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 21 Dec. 4/5 There were found upon the coasts a variety of things called jelly-fishes, sea-jelly, sea-blubber, stingers or stangers, slobs or slobbers.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 743 We now come to a very large order of acalephs,..familiar under the title of Jelly Fishes, Slobbers, and similar euphonious names.
5. A blob or smear of liquid or a slimy substance; a layer or patch of something applied by dribbling, smearing, splashing, etc.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > drop of soft and moist substance
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1857 W. G. Wills Old Times xxx. 342 Put a plasther of white above it, and risk them splotches and slobbers of brown.
1917 Amer. Machinist 11 Oct. 636/2 Remember, a spot of glue; a ‘slobber’ of glue will spoil the job.
1961 ‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life xvi. 124 There was a woman that could bake a farl of wheaten bread! Put a slobber of honey on that and you had a banquet, man.
1989 G. Greer Daddy, we hardly knew You (1990) 72 Every inch of the glass was covered with greasy marks.., dribbles and slobbers of dried this and that.
2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 June 59 Then he uses a long sharp blade to scrape the melted cheese into a bowl—great thick oozing slobbers of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
slobberadj.
/ˈslɒbə/, U.S. /ˈslɑbər/ 1. Clumsy, awkward. Apparently only in slobber swing n. (in gymnastics and circus slang) a full circle on the horizontal bar; spec. (in earliest use) such a manoeuvre performed inexpertly, in a way characteristic of a beginner. Now rare.
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1866 C. Spencer Mod. Gymnast 43 When you begin to master the feat, you will get a knack of supporting the body with the groin while you are turning round. This is designated by the euphonious name of the ‘Slobber Swing’, as it is rather a clumsy way of doing it: but the ‘short swing’ proper..is performed without allowing the body to touch the bar at all.
1880 Cassell's Family Mag. 135/1 When I was only ten, I assure you, I could do the slobber swing, and the Plymouth, and the Hindoo punishment too.
1933 E. Seago Circus Company 295 Slobberswing, a complete circle on the horizontal bar.
2. With reference to a mouth or lips: large, full; fleshy; protruding; (later also) characterized by slobber or slobbering; wet with saliva. Cf. earlier slobber-chops n.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from use of slobber n. as a modifier.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > types of
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1895 Daily News 12 July 6/3 The crushed nose, the slobber lips, all red and wet.
1938 J. Masefield Dead Ned 116 I had never seen a face quite like his, the big, insolent, slobber mouth, a nose which had been badly broken..and one..cauliflower ear.
2018 @paw_murphys 7 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 27 July 2019) My Mom is teasing me over my slobber face but I know she's happy it didn't end up on her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slobberv.
/ˈslɒbə/, U.S. /ˈslɑbər/ 1.
a. intransitive. To let saliva or other fluid run or drip from the mouth; to drool or slaver.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)]
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c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 186 (MED) He..Slypped vpon a sloumbe-selepe, and sloberande he routes.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search 98 She, like a changeling, slobbers down her chinne.
?1750 Family Physician 89 Teeth, breeding of. When this is difficult, the infant..puts his fingers often in his mouth, the gums swell.., he slobbers much, and is either costive or has a looseness.
1846 W. Scott Woodstock (rev. ed.) I. xxvii. 200 Bevis slobbered and whined for the duck-wing.
1866 B. Brown On Curability Insanity, Catalepsy, & Hysteria in Females viii. 68 The patient..is now almost idiotic; stares vacantly; slobbers at the mouth.
1888 Climax (Richmond, Kentucky) 29 Feb. The sheep [that has eaten too much salt] moans, hangs the head and slobbers at the mouth.
1933 S. Burt Entertaining Islanders 58 People..snoring, and slobbering, and tossing in their sleep.
1993 D. MacClintock Animals Observed 44/3 The bloodhound Laura..slobbers in anticipation.
2012 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 22 Mar. 2/6 Eww. No, Mommy! Babies slobber. I don't want a baby slobbering on me.
b. transitive. To wet (one's face, clothes, etc.) with saliva, other fluid, food, etc., expressed or dropped from the mouth; to drool or slaver on (something or someone).
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > in a dirty or disagreeable manner
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > splash or splatter
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1554 J. Standish Disc. Script. in Eng. vi. sig. Gviv Younge children, whiche yf they fede them selues wyl defile & slober their clothes.
1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 15 The Cook that slobbers his Beard with Sack Posset.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 210 It is not handsome to see one hold one's Tongue: Besides, I should slobber my Fingers.
1835 D. Mackillar Treat. Politeness, Good-breeding, & Manners 67 Never cram your mouth so full, that..the contents..slobber your own cheeks and chin.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 264 They all wear pinafores; as if the British female were in the invariable habit of wearing this outer garment, or slobbering her gown without it.
1879 J. E. Godfrey Mem. Hon. Edward Kent 463 The hostler soon came back, puffing a cigar which he had already lighted and well slobbered over.
1976 J. Patterson Thomas Berryman Affair (1996) 126 Ben Toy slobbered his chin as he spoke.
2017 @dbnvds 28 July in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2020) Slept so good I slobbered my pillow :/.
c. transitive. To drool or drop (saliva, other fluid, food) from the mouth; to express (something) with saliva. Occasionally and in earliest use: to cause (one's tongue) to protrude from the mouth. Also with out.
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1646 H. Mill 2nd Pt. Nights Search xv. 96 She..Hold's in her breath, as if she had been dead: Closing her eyes, and slobbering out her tongue.
1772 R. Griffith Something New II. lvii. 215 That..band..fabulous Greece has stiled the milky way; imagining that a certain infant, named Jupiter.., had slobbered some of the milk while he was sucking his nurse.
1828 W. Cobbett Treat. Cobbett's Corn ix. §152 If his [sc. a horse's] grinders be not sufficient for the work, he will slobber the corn out of his mouth again.
1879 Vet. Jrnl. 8 443 It ate its own dung, bit deeply into the woodwork, and slobbered saliva freely.
1907 J. G. Neihardt Lonesome Trail xvii. 243 I felt a fire..that made me wish to fight big men for her, and make them bleed and make them groan and make them die, slobbering blood in the dust!
1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xx. 369 Ruthie..pulled out her mouth with her forefingers, slobbered her tongue at him.
2008 M. Lindley Private Papers of Eastern Jewel 243 At his feet two huge English mastiff dogs slobbered strings of saliva onto the carpet.
d. transitive. To touch or caress (something or someone) with the lips or tongue; to kiss, esp. in a wet or excessively enthusiastic way; to make wet with kissing or kisses. Also intransitive: to kiss in this way.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [verb (transitive)] > make wet with kissing
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1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique iv. iv. 50 They bring in their Wenches..and they so slobber them, nay before my own face.
1727 J. Swift Corinna in Misc. Last vol. ii. 227 She made a Song, how little Miss Was kiss'd and slobber'd by a Lad.
1741 J. Parry True Anti-Pamela 303 They did nothing but Tee and Toy, Kiss and Slobber, all the live-long day.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. vii. 51 She..slobbered my cheek, and parted from me.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. 474 Whose cheek he slobbered with kisses.
1905 M. H. Hewlett Fool Errant xxxviii. 296 He wept over me as a long-lost child of his, slobbered me, patted my head.
1928 Minnesota Q. Spring 43 ‘Where have you been, my pure white dove?’ he bellowed, running up to her and juicily slobbering her neck.
2017 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 12 Oct. The entranced woman pressed him in her arms and slobbered him with kisses.
e. transitive. To utter (words, speech, etc.) thickly or indistinctly, as through an excess of saliva. Frequently with out.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > mutter or mumble
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say hastily or confusedly
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1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd ii. i. 10 She lisps and slobbers out her words like a perfect Changeling.
1835 G. W. Johnson Mem. J. Selden iii. 89 With a tongue too large for his mouth, he slobbered out his words, which were additionally mutilated by a broad Scotch accent.
1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 98 He not only slobbered his words when he talked, but drank as if he were eating his drink.
1926 Boston Daily Globe 11 Mar. 18/1 What an unflattering difference exists between fine enunciation of it [sc. English] and the way it is commonly slobbered in ordinary speech.
1982 G. Naylor Women of Brewster Place (1983) 150 He..was able to open his mouth and slobber the words out into the room.
2009 @hiimjake 15 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 1 Nov. 2019) Novocaine is a hell of a drug. I'm looking forward to slobbering my speech for the next hour.
f. intransitive. figurative. to slobber over ——: to pay a great or excessive amount of attention to (a person or thing); to show exaggerated enthusiasm or affection for (someone or something); to be extremely effusive or obsequious towards.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)]
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to slobber over ——1761
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the mind > emotion > love > affection > [verb (transitive)] > be over-attentive or over-affectionate towards
to slobber over ——1761
1761 ‘Veritas’ Triumvirate 19 I shew'd my tritical discerning, In slobbering over works of learning.
1825 W. Scott Let. 21 Feb. (1935) IX. 11 Think..how many antiquarian chops have slobbered over the fiery trial.
1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 406/1 Do you really mean it? Are you really going to waste a whole afternoon slobbering over a wretched baby?
1914 W. Owen Let. 28 Aug. (1967) 282 He received me like a lover. To use an expression of the Rev. H. Wigan's, he quite slobbered over me.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace viii. 50 Even if they had slobbered over every blessed picture in the place they would not have understood.
2004 PR Week (Nexis) 24 May 12 A media outlet that slobbers over celebrities and does gossipy reports on the criminal misadventures of the wealthy.
2.
a. intransitive. To eat or drink messily or noisily, or in a greedily enthusiastic way. Now somewhat rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1a.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > eat coarsely
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a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 286 (MED) Nor bryng vs in no dokes flesch, for thei slober in the mer.
1678 T. Duffett Psyche Debauch'd iv. 58 Let Taffy go seek for his bliss in a Leek, And Teag in hot Isquebagh slobber.
1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Slobber, to eat spoon meat in a filthy manner, allowing portions of it to run down over the chin.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 228/2 Get yer meat clean, lad; don't slobber like a bairn.
1932 North-China Herald 7 Dec. 393/1 He gives the impression of slobbering over his food and spilling the soup on his waistcoat.
1967 Mental Retardation 5 26/3 One will never achieve excretory continence.., another will always slobber untidily at his meals.
1998 P. Cunningham Consequences of Heart ii. 14 On Sundays as I slobbered through my meal, he sat unspeaking.
b. transitive. To consume (food or drink) in a messy, noisy, or greedily enthusiastic way; to gobble up; to wolf down. Cf. earlier slubber v. 5.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat coarsely
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1726 J. Arbuckle tr. Horace Epodes ii, in Dublin Weekly Jrnl. 3 Dec. 346/2 Let the Luxurious, lolling at their Ease, Call Plaise and Turbit from the distant Seas, And slobber Oysters in salacious Brine.
1751 J. Stirling tr. Horace Wks. II. 284/2 It raises great qualms in the stomach; if..the valet hath touch'd the glass with his greasy hands, while he slobbers up the stolen sauces.
1841 Spectator 4 Dec. 1165/1 But it was royal caudle; and those who would have turned up their noses at the liquor on any other occasion, slobbered it up for the sake of the dish in which it was presented.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) I've a-zeed-n slobber up a wole head and hange for supper.
1910 A. Dudeney Large Room xvi. 338 Then, smiling, stupid, she descended and slipped softly out of the house, for ever, while Humphrey was slobbering soup.
2012 S. Dunlap No Footpr. xxxi. 189 What's the worst that can happen, people don't get to go to a big dark room, slobber down popcorn, and stare at a screen for a couple hours?
3.
a. transitive. Frequently in passive. To smear, daub, or splatter (a person or thing) in or with grease, dirt, paint, etc. Also in earliest use: to soil or smudge (something), as through frequent or careless handling. Cf. slubber v. 1a.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > smear
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1529 E. Lee Let. 20 Apr. in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VII. 162 In the superscription it [sc. a document] appered slobered, by rayson of often handlenge.
1674 Defensio Legis 255 The Church thus thumb'd and slober'd, with impious Vomitings against order.
1773 St. James's Chron. 11–13 Mar. Their Cheeks, &c. are already well slobbered over with Rouge; and if they should put their Hair in the same Livery, they will be red all over, and look like a fresh Beef-Steak.
1835 Figaro in London 12 Dec. 205/1 One or two of the ladies there were more slobbered with the slime than the rest.
1845 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 482/1 'T is a fat, greasy-looking old fellow..; his waistcoat's all slobbered over with grease.
1893 W. H. Smith Walks & Talks 194 So many school-rooms and school children slobbered all over with superfluous grease.
1932 Country Life Jan. 45/2 She [sc. a ship] was stripped for fighting, she was slobbered all over with thick gray paint.., and every inch of her showed the marks of wartime service.
1958 H. Trott Schooner that came Home vii. 85 Great chains kept the redwood deckload from shifting, set fiddle taut with steel turnbuckles, slobbered with grease and tallow to keep boarding sees from rusting the threads.
2012 @Lauren_WilsonK 22 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 1 Nov. 2019) Time to slobber myself in moisturiser head to toe.
b. intransitive. Of a liquid: to slosh, splash, or trickle; to move with a sloshing or splashing sound. Also: to spill out of or over the side of a container; to slop.
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1841 United Service Jrnl. Oct. 197 As the vessel heaved heavily to the long swell, a puddle of blood and water slobbered and bubbled in the lee scuppers, with a strange and death-like plash.
1882 Bell's Life in London 14 Jan. 3/1 The spray falling on the rocks and craggy points had been gripped by the cold, and slobbered down in tears.
1890 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 1 Nov. 479/2 The urine is still accumulating in the bladder, a little only slobbering out from overflow.
1903 A. Dudeney Robin Brilliant xiv. 209 She gave a nervous start, the wine slobbering over the edge of the glass and making a purple stain on her grey cloth skirt.
1914 K. F. Purdon Folk of Furry Farm ii. 39 He..with the milk slobbering out of the pail down upon the ground, the way the calves were butting him about the legs.
2009 C. D. Hickey Last Train from Liguria 65 The rain slobbered all over the windows.
c. transitive. To spill, spread, or pour (a substance) in a messy way on or over something.
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1847 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 11 Feb. The clouds were apparently too languid to exert themselves, and they slobbered their tears, instead of sending forth copious showers.
1893 E. W. Champney Six Boys viii. 173 Don't slobber mud all over my clothes.
1912 Rep. Departmental Comm. Danger of Paints containing Lead: Vol. IV. Minutes Evid. (1920) in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 632) XX. 632 A painter who..slobbers the paint all over the place.., who slobbers the paint all round the pot, and so on.
1965 House & Garden Jan. 160/2 In the very coldest weather there is no advantage in slobbering water on the underside of the roof panes [i.e. of a greenhouse, with a hose].
2014 K. Altenberg Breaking Light (e-book ed.) xi He remembered the way she had slobbered jam on a piece of toast.
4. † b. transitive. To perform or carry out (one's duty, work, study, etc.) in a careless, lazy, or hurried way; chiefly with over. Also intransitive with through. Obsolete.
a. transitive. With over. To conceal or misrepresent (a crime, fault, etc.); to cover up. Also (in weaker sense): to pass or gloss over (a point, argument, etc.) with insufficient attention or comment. Now rare.With this and sense 4b, compare slubber v. 2c and 4.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness
to toy with ——1563
skima1586
slubber1592
slobber1630
huddle1648
to shuffle over, through1656
slobber1765
slattern1781
scuffle1785
slur1857
perfunctorize1866
smatter1881
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > cover up
smother1579
to shuffle up1588
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smooth1592
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slobber1630
to hush up1632
slubber1646
smooth1684
sopite1746
shade1785
smug1857
hugger-mugger1862
to cover up1926
1630 A. Ar. Practise of Princes 21 It is indeede as if one attained or held honours by murders, treasons, adulteries, thefts, lies and the like; or by slobering them over, as som write of the smothered murder of Marques Hambleton.
1630 R. Delamain Grammelogia sig. **4 Had I time, and place I could not slober over such a point, but take up much of both..; howsoever I have said somethings in its use, to illustrate it.
1773 Morning Chron. 30 Oct. The writer who signs himself ‘A Friend to Merit’, chuses to turn a deaf ear to ‘Candour’, and therefore slobbers over the arguments used by his opponent.
1842 ‘Cotton Twist’ Free Trader xxiii. 124 A condition which..I shall shew that Mr. Mott slobbers over, smothering and suppressing the facts after his own peculiar fashion.
1962 London Mag. 259 The imagination which devised it was Neronic; and because she for once did not slobber over the ambiguity of her own feelings it is a masterpiece.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness
to toy with ——1563
skima1586
slubber1592
slobber1630
huddle1648
to shuffle over, through1656
slobber1765
slattern1781
scuffle1785
slur1857
perfunctorize1866
smatter1881
1765 J. Ramsay Ess. Duty & Qualifications Sea Officer 14 You will irrecoverably lose yourself, if you ever allow yourself to slobber over the most trifling part of your duty. Do every thing with the same briskness and exactness as if the lord high admiral was present, and with the same care, as if the safety of the ship depended on it.
1821 Times 16 May 2/4 The question is an important one, Mr. Coroner. The eyes of the whole nation are now upon us, and we should not appear to slobber our duty over.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 249 To do work in a slovenly, untidy manner, is to slobber it over.
1877 Photographic News 27 Apr. 203/2 Photographers that persist in wallowing and slobbering through their work, slinging things about as a common labourer working on the street would do.
1896 Yale Lit. Mag. June 382 As the girl ushered him into the main room he was aware of five women who seemed to be slobbering housework.
a1911 R. Tressell Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) xxviii. 289 The same old conditions prevailed, the same frenzied hurry, the same scamping of the work, slobbering it over, cheating the customers.
5.
a. transitive. To say or write (something) in a way regarded as foolish, superficial, or excessively sentimental. Frequently with out or †forth.
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?1774 ‘Brutus’ & ‘H. Search’ Ess., Hist., Polit. & Moral II. xliv. 232 Search means not to reply to what either he, or Squire Antenor..may slobber forth, or to any frothy declamations, devoid of sense and argument.
1876 7th Ann. Rep. Secretary Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 22 The coming men will not slobber sentiment and gush their business; they will figure out the per cents and calculate closely the chances of success.
1890 Tablet 4 Jan. 10 Some person or other with unctuous eloquence slobbering out the shibboleth of civil and religious freedom.
1923 Infantry Jrnl. (U.S.) Sept. 255 The day may yet come when we will regret that we have disregarded the menace of those..who slobber sentimentalism on behalf of slippery slackers.
2020 @trusgift 5 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2020) Will @MittRomney be the next to publicly slobber out the party line, or will he quietly vote for aquittal?
b. intransitive. To write or speak in a way regarded as foolish, superficial, or excessively sentimental; esp. to speak or write in such a way about or on a particular subject.
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1827 Inspector 2 285 When the case of birds which cost the landlords twenty shillings a-head is in dispute, it is nauseous folly to slobber about the rights of all men to pursue wild animals.
1872 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. 20 June It is of no use..for the Greeley..organ to go on maundering and slobbering about the ‘federal office-holders’ conspiring to defeat his nomination.
1914 Egoist 2 Mar. 84/1 Mr. Macdonald..and the entire official Labour Party might be allowed to slobber for hours without any pernicious effects.
1916 National Rev. June 504 Lord Haldane crossed the Atlantic to slobber on the subject of ‘Sittlichkeit’ to the American Bar Association.
2002 M. Doyle Dancing with Minnie Twig 116 Some old lads slobber on about the old days.., how hard the times were when they were young, the way they had to work, not like the youth of today, and all that baloney.
6. transitive. Chiefly Irish English. To squander or fritter away (money, income). Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste
spilla1000
scatter1154
aspilla1250
rospa1325
waste1340
spend1390
consumec1425
waste1474
miswenda1500
forsumea1510
to cast away1530
to throw away1561
embezzle1578
squander1593
palter1595
profuse1611
squander1611
ravel1614
sport1622
to fool away1628
to stream out1628
to fribble away1633
sweal1655
frisk1665
to fiddle away1667
wantonize1673
slattera1681
swattle1681
drivel1686
swatter1690
to muddle away1707
squander1717
sot1746
slattern1747
meisle1808
fritter1820
waster1821
slobber1837
to cut to waste1863
fringe1863
potter1883
putter1911
profligate1938
to piddle away1942
haemorrhage1978
spaff2002
1837 Dublin Univ. Mag. Nov. 555/1 ‘But what can she do with that lovely income?’ ‘Just lets it slip through her fingers, slobbering it away on charity and vagrants.’
1889 Daily Express (Dublin) 4 Feb. 2/7 I frankly owned that they had slobbered away the money since in an unjustifiable manner.
1930 Cork Examiner 1 Aug. 14/5 He did not like to think that the bank existed in Ireland for the purpose of scraping good Irish money together, to be slobbered away across the water in England.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > in clumsy manner
slobber1859
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > deal out in clumsy manner
slobber1859
1859 A. Trollope Bertrams I. xxii. 388 She went on slobbering out the cards, and counting them over and over again.
8. intransitive. To cry noisily or uncontrollably; to sob, to blubber.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)]
greetc725
weepc900
tearc950
plore1373
beweepc1374
to put one's finger in one's eye1447
waterc1450
lachryme1490
cryc1532
lerma1533
tricklec1540
to water one's plants1542
to show tears1553
shower1597
issuea1616
lachrymate1623
sheda1632
pipe1671
to take a pipe1671
to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789
twine1805
to let fall1816
whinnya1825
blub1866
slobber1875
blart1896
skrike1904
water-cart1914
1875 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 6 Oct. 1/3 As Nasby would say, the Governor ‘slopped over’—he sobbed and slobbered like a vicious urchin under the lash.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 89/1 He slobber't an' yool't like a barn.
1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 35 The terms for crying, such as slobber and blare.
1949 H. Miller Sexus (1981) I. xxii. 591 And the sob stuff... how they liked the mother songs! Poor, dopy, dog-eared saps. When it came to home and mother they slobbered like wailing mice.
2011 M. Berry Foulks Rebellion xii. 43 He cry, he slobber like little boy! You understan'!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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