Slivered vs Slavered - What's the difference?
slivered | slavered |
(sliver)
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
*:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
(US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
* Sir Walter Scott
(slaver)
To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
To fawn.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
To be besmeared with saliva.
saliva running from the mouth; drool
* Alexander Pope
a person engaged in the slave trade
white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
(nautical) a ship used to transport slaves
As verbs the difference between slivered and slavered
is that slivered is (sliver) while slavered is (slaver).slivered
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *sliver
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinterVerb
(en verb)- to sliver wood
- (Shakespeare)
- They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
Anagrams
* *slavered
English
Verb
(head)slaver
English
Etymology 1
From medieval English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from (etyl) slafra "to slaver", probably imitativeVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (emit saliva ): drool, slobberNoun
(-)- Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.
