slabber

Meanings

Verb

• To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
• To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
• To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
• To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.

Noun

• Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.
• A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
• A slabbing machine.

Origin

• From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen, from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną. Cognate with Low German slabbern ("to slabber"), German schlabbern ("to slabber"), Icelandic slafra ("to slaver"). More at slaver.
• From slab + -er.