different between drivel vs slabber

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??v.?l/
• Hyphenation: driv?el
• Rhymes: -?v?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English drivelen, drevelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijan?,from Proto-Indo-European *d?ereb?- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).

Noun

drivel (countable and uncountable, plural drivels)

1. senseless talk; nonsense
2. saliva, drool
3. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.

Translations

Verb

drivel (third-person singular simple present drivels, present participle (US) driveling or drivelling, simple past and past participle (US) driveled or drivelled)

1. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
2. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
3. To be weak or foolish; to dote.
   • driveling dotard

Synonyms

• (have saliva drip from the mouth): drool
• (talk nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense.

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare Old Dutch drevel (“scullion”).

Noun

drivel (plural drivels)

1. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.

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References

• drivel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Vidler, drevil

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