Swabber vs Slabber - What's the difference?
swabber | slabber |
One who swabs a floor or deck.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
(nautical, historical) An interior officer on British warships, responsible for seeing that the ship was kept clean.
(card games) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting in whist.
(Webster 1913)
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 swabber and slabber
is that swabber is one who swabs a floor or deck while slabber is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california.swabber
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Alternative forms
* swobberNoun
(en noun)- The master, the swabber , the boatswain, and I,
- The gunner, and his mate,
- Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery,
- But none of us car'd for Kate:
slabber
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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.
