Slobber

Definitions

1. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
   countable, uncountable
2. A dribbly shower (of rain).
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
3. Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
   countable, uncountable
4. A jellyfish.
   countable, dated, uncountable
5. Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
   attributive, countable, form-of, uncountable

Equivalents

16 more languages

العربيةاللعاب

Bosanskibababalaбала

Češtinaslintat

Ελληνικάσαλιαρίζω

Suomikuolakuolata

Galegobabar

Hrvatskibababalaбала

Magyarnyálnyáladzik

Bahasa Indonesiailer

日本語涎

Nederlandskwijlen

Portuguêsbabababar

Românăsalivă

Русскийпуска́ть слюнислюни

Српскиbababalaбала

తెలుగుచొంగ

Examples

“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”

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