slabber

Example Sentences

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To DRABLE, DRAIBLE, v. a. to slabber; to befoul.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander

Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth, which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half-way down to the ground.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

You think you're in the country, where great lubberly brothers slabber and kiss one another when they meet, like a call of sergeants.

From The Way of the World by Congreve, William

Removing the slabber which was gathered in his beard and at his mouth, he shouted: "Put police on you will I."

From My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Evans, Caradoc

In modern French bave means "drivel," "slabbering," and the verb baver "to slabber," but the bib is now called bavette.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham