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Meaning of Slobber | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈslɒbə(ɹ)

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية اللعاب
Bosanski baba bala бала
Čeština slintat
Deutsch Geifer geifern Sabber Sabbern
Ελληνικά σαλιαρίζω
Suomi kuola kuolata
Français bave baver
Galego babar
Hrvatski baba bala бала
Magyar nyál nyáladzik
Bahasa Indonesia iler
日本語
Nederlands kwijlen
Português baba babar
Română salivă
Српски baba bala бала
తెలుగు చొంగ

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”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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