Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver; hence, to cover with fulsome flattery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
  • verb transitive, figuratively To cover with fulsome flattery.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From be- +‎ slaver. Compare beslabber.

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Examples

  • [The soldier ordered the catamite to beslaver me with his stinking kisses.]

    Satyricon 2007

  • Then the catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly from, nor in any other way avoid.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Then the catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly from, nor in any other way avoid.

    The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • The soldier ordered the catamite to beslaver me with his stinking kisses.

    The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • The soldier ordered the catamite to beslaver me with his stinking kisses.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Then the catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly from, nor in any other way avoid.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • This putrid filth, molded into human shape, made only to fawn on the rich and beslaver them, thinking no foulness too foul if it were done in honor of those in power and authority; and no refined cruelty of contempt too cruel if it were contempt of the poor and humble and oppressed; it was to this obscene and ghastly throng that he was something to be pointed at.

    The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

  • When you cannot get your own way in the army, you beslaver the local martial Esculapius with soft words and prevail upon him to back you up.

    Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

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