Glaver vs Slaver - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between glaver and slaver

is that glaver is to prate; to jabber; to babble while slaver is to drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

saliva running from the mouth; drool.

(en verb)

(obsolete) To prate; to jabber; to babble.

Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. — Wyclif.

(obsolete) To flatter; to wheedle.

Some slavish, glavering , flattering parasite. — South.

(Webster 1913)

From medieval English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from (etyl) slafra "to slaver", probably imitative

(en verb)

To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

To fawn.

To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.

To be besmeared with saliva.

(Shakespeare)

* (emit saliva ): drool, slobber

(-)

saliva running from the mouth; drool

* Alexander Pope

Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

From the verb slave 'enslave, traffic in slaves'

(en noun)

a person engaged in the slave trade

white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'

(nautical) a ship used to transport slaves

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