Slabber vs Slubber - What's the difference?
slabber | slubber |
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 do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
* 1597 , , Merchant of Venice , act 2, sc. 8,
To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
* Milton
To slobber.
* 1914 , , Mutiny of the Elsinore , ch. 33:
As nouns the difference between slabber and slubber
is that slabber is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california while slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs.As a verb slubber is
to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.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
slubber
English
Verb
(en verb)- Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
- But stay the very riping of the time.
- There is no art that hath more slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
- It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber .
