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  • verb Present participle of slabber.

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Examples

  • "slabbering," and the verb _baver_ "to slabber," but the bib is now called _bavette_.

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • Looks like the White House really was intending to use this an exercise in spreading socialist ideology, until they were caught out by protests by slabbering morons like Jim Greer.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Could monitor the usual confabulations, the race slabbering past the gable, the Moyola harping on its gravel beds: all spouts by daylight brimmed with their own airs and overflowed each barrel in long tresses.

    POEMS BY SEAMUS HEANEY, 1966-1972 1972

  • Could monitor the usual confabulations, the race slabbering past the gable, the Moyola harping on its gravel beds: all spouts by daylight brimmed with their own airs and overflowed each barrel in long tresses.

    GIFTS OF RAIN 1972

  • In the mean while you may be kissing and slabbering of your Mistris in the next room; or contriving what's to be done about the marriage, and keeping of the Wedding; but perhaps, through the discord of the friends, it will not be long before you are disturb'd; the differences oft rising so high, that the sound thereof, clatters through the

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • The words fall off of the ends of their tongues, and a continual slabbering sound is made in the cheeks, outside of the teeth.

    Chapter XVI. Liberty-Day on Shore 1909

  • He was a thick, corpulent person with a red and bloated face, and of very slabbering speech.

    Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

  • The pink light on the mirror faded, and a life-like reflection appeared -- the reflection of a young man standing on a rock in bold relief against a dark background of rugged, slabbering cliffs and the forbidding mouths of caves.

    The Changing Sun 1894

  • Why, even the very men who had lately been slaves were in the "righteous cause," and glorifying it, praying for it, sentimentally slabbering over it, just like all the other commoners.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • The pink light on the mirror faded, and a life-like reflection appeared -- the reflection of a young man standing on a rock in bold relief against a dark background of rugged, slabbering cliffs and the forbidding mouths of caves.

    The Land of the Changing Sun 1888

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