Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Drooling; defiling with saliva.
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- verb Present participle of
slaver . - adjective
drooling saliva
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Examples
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Peter Baker’s idiocy can be easily written off as just more slavering from the toady leftist New York Times.
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I expected them to go after him with both barrels, the kitchen sink, a slavering pit bull and broken bottles dipped in acid.
Shan Wells: Crumble Shan Wells 2011
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Also, I guess this is good for Tim Pawlenty, because he is not a slavering maniac?
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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Nor did it help that he published a startlingly candid sexual memoir, Liber Amoris, which a reviewer of the time attacked as a “precious record of vulgarity and nastiness” that revealed the author “in all the nakedness of his conceit, selfishness, slavering sensuality, filthy profligacy and howling idiotcy.”
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Also, I guess this is good for Tim Pawlenty, because he is not a slavering maniac?
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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I expected them to go after him with both barrels, the kitchen sink, a slavering pit bull and broken bottles dipped in acid.
Shan Wells: Crumble Shan Wells 2011
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All of these skills were acquired not by double-fisting entire Swiss rolls into his slavering jaws but through hard work.
Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay 2011
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Those slavering for a fight of glorious proportions were listening intently to the running commentary on the festering row between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.
Australian Open 2012: Heather Watson blown away by Victoria Azarenka 2012
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Later still the pursuer resembled a beetle, then a rabbit and finally a slavering, demonic form on a maddened camel.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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All of these skills were acquired not by double-fisting entire Swiss rolls into his slavering jaws but through hard work.
Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay 2011
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