different between slabber vs slubber

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

English

Etymology

Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?b?(?)

Verb

slubber (third-person singular simple present slubbers, present participle slubbering, simple past and past participle slubbered)

1. To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
3. To slobber.

Noun

slubber (plural slubbers)

1. A person who, or a machine which, slubs.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Anagrams

• burbles, lubbers, rebulbs, rubbles