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Befoul vs Slabber - What's the difference?

befoul | slabber |

As a verb befoul

is to make foul; to soil.

As a noun slabber is

an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california.

befoul

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make foul; to soil.
  • To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
  • slabber

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) slaberen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
  • To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
  • To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.
  • To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
  • * Tusser
  • The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
  • A slabbing machine.
  • (Webster 1913)