Slabber
nounEtymology From slab + -er.
slabber
verbalso spelled Slabber/ˈslæbə(ɹ)/
Etymology From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.
1
To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
2
To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
3
To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
- At the ſame time he clap'd me on the Back, and ſlabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, vvith his great Tongue.1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 23:
4
To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
- The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.1878, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC: