slobber

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to let saliva or partly chewed food run out of the mouth

   The sedated dog began to slobber onto the blanket.

2. 2
   noun

   saliva or other liquid that has run from the mouth

   A line of slobber hung from the mastiff's lower lip.

Multiword verbs with slobber

• slobber over Prepositional verb C2

  to show excessive envy or eager desire for something

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Simplified etymology

Slobber was borrowed in late Middle English from Dutch slobberen, which meant “to walk through mud.”

From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen ("to slobber"). It belongs to a group of expressive Germanic words for noisy eating, drinking, and drooling, and is related to slabber and slaver.

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