Slabber vs Slabbery - What's the difference?
slabber | slabbery |
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
As a noun slabber
is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california.As an adjective slabbery is
like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.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.
