Slobber vs Slabber - What's the difference?
slobber | slabber |
Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
(dated) A jellyfish.
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 nouns the difference between slobber and slabber
is that slobber is liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth while slabber is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california.As a verb slobber
is to allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.slobber
English
Noun
- There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
Synonyms
* (emit saliva) drool, slaverDerived terms
* slobberyAnagrams
*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.
