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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of slabber.

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Examples

  • How did he use to hang, till he slabbered again, poor doting old man! on your silver tongue!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • “A hadden tongue,” replied Andrew, “makes a slabbered mouth.”

    Rob Roy 2005

  • And then lest the southrons should escape we have a reference to the “beastly habit of drinking from a tankard in which perhaps a dozen filthy mouths have slabbered as is the custom in England.”

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • His trouser leg and the side of his jacket were slabbered with the mud.

    Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

  • With what undaunted firmness he suffers himself to be taken to her arms -- no, not to her arms, but her tail -- and how patiently he suffers his cheeks that have felt the breath of sweet lips to be slabbered by a nasty snake!

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • ` ` A hadden tongue, '' replied Andrew, ` ` makes a slabbered mouth. ''

    Rob Roy 1887

  • Accordingly, he commanded his ducal register to be brought him, a huge book, secured with brass clasps like a merchant's ledger, and whose leaves, stained with wine, and slabbered with tobacco juice, bore the names probably of as many rogues as are to be found in the Calendar of Newgate.

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • How did he use to hang, till he slabbered again, poor doting old man! on your silver tongue!

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • At the same time he clapped me on the back, and slabbered me all over from cheek to cheek with his great tongue.

    History of John Bull John Arbuthnot 1701

  • No, no, avaunt -- I'll not be slabbered and kissed now -- I'm not i 'th' humour.

    The Old Bachelor: a Comedy William Congreve 1699

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