Drizzle vs Slobber - What's the difference?
drizzle | slobber |
(ambitransitive) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
* Shakespeare
(cooking) To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking.
(slang) To urinate.
Light rain.
(physics, weather). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.
(slang) Water.
Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
(dated) A jellyfish.
As verbs the difference between drizzle and slobber
is that drizzle is (ambitransitive) to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles while slobber is to allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.As nouns the difference between drizzle and slobber
is that drizzle is light rain while slobber is liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.drizzle
English
Verb
(drizzl)- The air doth drizzle dew.
- The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
- The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
Noun
(en noun)- No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle .
- Stop drinking all of my drizzle !
Derived terms
* drizzlyslobber
English
Noun
- There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.