Slubber vs Drool - What's the difference?
slubber | drool |
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:
to secrete saliva in anticipation of food
to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice
to talk nonsense
saliva trickling from the mouth
As verbs the difference between slubber and drool
is that slubber is to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily while drool is to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.As nouns the difference between slubber and drool
is that slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs while drool is saliva trickling from the mouth.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 .
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)Anagrams
* *drool
English
Verb
(en verb)- That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him