different between slobbery vs slabbery

English

Etymology 1

slobber +? -y

Adjective

slobbery (comparative slobberier, superlative slobberiest)

1. Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
   • 2007, Elinor de Wire - The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses page xi

     He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.

     "Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.

2. Prone to produce an excess of saliva or slobber.
   • 2004, Susan Johnson - The Broken Book page 25.

     My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.

Etymology 2

slob +? -ery

Noun

slobbery (uncountable)

1. The behaviour or attitudes of a slob; slobbishness.
   • 1981, Tom Cohan, Canary (page 319)

     Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery.

Anagrams

• lobbyers

English

Etymology

slabber +? -y

Adjective

slabbery (comparative more slabbery, superlative most slabbery)

1. Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
   • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):

     Later in the day Dunlop told Cal to muck out the byre and because it was something he could do he went at it with a will. As he scraped and shovelled the slabbery dung he remembered: 'For too long the Catholics of Ulster have been the hewers of wood and the drawers of water.'