Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who slavers; a driveler; hence, a servile, abject flatterer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A driveler; an idiot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
driveler ; anidiot .
Etymologies
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slaver + -er
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Examples
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The Blennius pholis, smooth blenny, is called by the French baveuse (slaverer), in
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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And again; "We degrade our own honour and the sovereign's by unduly and unjustly praising him; and the mere slaverer and flatterer is one who comes forward, as it were, with flash notes, and pays with false coin his tribute to Cæsar.
Thackeray Anthony Trollope 1848
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