Wet vs Slabber - What's the difference?
wet | slabber |
Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
Of weather or a time period, rainy.
* Milton
Made up of liquid or moisture.
(informal) Of a person, ineffectual.
(slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.
(slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
(of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
* 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
(fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
* This pen's a wet writer, so it'll feather on this cheap paper.
(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Covered in a sauce.
* 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372
* 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10
* 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13
Liquid or moisture.
* Milton
Rainy weather.
(British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To urinate accidentally in or on.
To become wet
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 wet and slabber
is that wet is liquid or moisture while slabber is an inhabitant of (slab city), a snowbird campsite in the colorado desert in southeastern california.As an adjective wet
is of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.As a verb wet
is to cover or impregnate with liquid.wet
English
Adjective
(wetter)- I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .
- It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
- wet October's torrent flood
- Water is wet .
- Don't be so wet .
- He got me all wet .
- That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.
- the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
- The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
- (Prior)
- A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
- The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.
- But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
Synonyms
* (covered with liquid) damp, saturated, soaked * (of weather or a day) damp, raining, rainy * (sexually aroused) horny * (made up of liquid) wetting * (ineffectual) feeble, hopeless, useless * (inexperienced) green, wet behind the ears * (burrito) chimichangaAntonyms
* (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dryDerived terms
* all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetworkSee also
* moistNoun
(en noun)- Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
- Don't go out in the wet .
- ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’
Verb
- Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
Derived terms
* wet oneself * wet one's beak * wet one's whistle * wet the baby's head * wetten * wettingslabber
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.