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.

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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