different between clabber vs slabber

English

Alternative forms

• clauber

Etymology

From Irish clábar (“mud”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæb.?(?)/

  Rhymes: -æb?(?)

Noun

clabber (uncountable)

1. Sour or curdled milk.
2. Wet clay or mud.

Related terms

• bonnyclabber

Translations

Verb

clabber (third-person singular simple present clabbers, present participle clabbering, simple past and past participle clabbered)

1. To sour or curdle.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son (Simon & Schuster 2014), page 148:

     They always had more milk than they needed and often entire buckets would clabber and one of her brothers would carry it out to the bunkhouse for the vaqueros.

Anagrams

• cabbler, crabble

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slæb?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æb?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabr?n, from Proto-Germanic *slabr?n? (“to scrawl, make a mess”). Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.

Alternative forms

• slobber, slubber

Verb

slabber (third-person singular simple present slabbers, present participle slabbering, simple past and past participle slabbered)

1. (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
2. (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
3. (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, Law Is a Bottomless Pit

     He slabber'd me all over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.

4. (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
   • 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

     The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.

Noun

slabber (countable and uncountable, plural slabbers)

1. Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.

Etymology 2

From slab +? -er.

Noun

slabber (plural slabbers)

1. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
2. A slabbing machine.

Anagrams

• barbels, barbles, rabbles