different between slobbery vs slobber

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

From Middle English [Term?]; ultimately a variant of slabber. Compare slob, which derives from Irish.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?b?(?)

Noun

slobber (countable and uncountable, plural slobbers)

1. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.

   There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.

2. Muddy or marshy land; mire.
3. (dated) A jellyfish.

Translations

Verb

slobber (third-person singular simple present slobbers, present participle slobbering, simple past and past participle slobbered)

1. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.

   All babies slobber.

Synonyms

• (emit saliva): drool, slaver

Translations

Derived terms

• slobbery

Anagrams

• lobbers