Slabber vs Blabber - What's the difference?
slabber | blabber |
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
To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
* Tusser
To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
* 2014 , Richard Szweda, Silenius' Gift
To blab; to let out a secret.
As nouns the difference between slabber and blabber
is that slabber is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california while blabber is a person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.As a verb blabber is
to blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.slabber
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) slaberen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.
- The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.
Etymology 2
blabber
English
Verb
(en verb)- He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life.
