slaver

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to let saliva run from the mouth; to drool or slobber

   The hungry hound began to slaver at the smell of meat.

2. 2
   verb

   to behave with excessive eagerness or servile flattery

   The courtiers slavered over every remark the celebrity made.

3. 3
   noun

   a person who holds enslaved people or participates in the slave trade

   The captured slaver was prosecuted for trafficking human beings.

The drooling verb comes from Middle English slaveren and Old Norse slafra, probably imitative. The noun meaning a slave trader is a separate formation from slave + -er; the two senses are homographs.

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