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Sobber vs Slobber - What's the difference?

sobber | slobber |

As nouns the difference between sobber and slobber

is that sobber is a weeper, someone who sobs while slobber is liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.

As a verb slobber is

to allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.

sobber

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weeper, someone who sobs.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 3, author=Terry Brown, title=Roger Federer not the only big man to cry, work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Federer, while not quite a serial sobber , also cried as a 21-year-old after beating Mark Philippoussis at Wimbledon in 2003. }}

    slobber

    English

    Noun

  • Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
    • There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
  • (dated) A jellyfish.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.
    • All babies slobber .

    Synonyms

    * (emit saliva) drool, slaver

    Derived terms

    * slobbery

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