slobber
/ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There was dried slobber on his coat lapel."
- "I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows."
- ""Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely.""
- "[…] treading through the slobber of rain that evoked a past like morsels of unsavoury eternity, slid the motor-car showily tossing up wings of water. 'Hoi, Mag!' It was her fiancé, ruddy with twenty-five-year-old enthusiasm and grinning like an[…]"
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber."
- "slobber grass, slobber hay"
Etymology
From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sloberen, slobberen