slabber

Meanings

1. To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
2. To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
3. To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
4. To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.

1. Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.

1. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
2. A slabbing machine.
3. Someone who makes slabs.

1. An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.

Etymology

From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.