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Slabbery vs Slabbers - What's the difference?

slabbery | slabbers |

As an adjective slabbery

is like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

As a noun slabbers is

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slabbery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
    • (Webster 1913)

    slabbers

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slabber)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • slabber

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) slaberen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
    • He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.
  • To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
  • * Tusser
    • The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
  • A slabbing machine.
    • (Webster 1913)