| 释义 |
▪ I. slobber, n.|ˈslɒbə(r)|
Also 5 slober(e, slobur.
[Related to slobber v. Cf. slabber n.1 and slubber n.1]
1. Mud or slime; slush, sleety rain; a sloppy mess or mixture.
c1400Destr. Troy 12529 In the Slober & the sluche slongyn to londe, There he lay. c1440Promp. Parv. 459/2 Slobur, or slobere, feces immunde. Ibid., Slobur, or blobur of fysshe and oþer lyke, burbulium. 1841Carlyle Let. in Atlantic Monthly LXXXII. 450/2 For a week past there has been nothing but sleet, rime and slobber, the streets half an inch deep with slush. 1879Shropshire Gloss., Slobber, thin, cold rain, mixed with snow; a sloppy sleet. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss. s.v., ‘A slobber o' reen an' snow’..is a slight downfall of rain mixed with snow.
2. Slaver, slabber. Also pl., a disease in rabbits marked by excessive salivation.
1755in Johnson. 1775Ash, Slobber, liquor spilled, slaver. 1889K. W. Knight Book of the Rabbit (ed. 2) 274 That unpleasant and often fatal complaint, slobbers—i.e., running at the mouth. 1902C. G. Harper Cambridge Road 73 Lips running with the thin slobber of the drunkard.
3. A jelly-fish.
1863J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 743 We now come to a very large order of acalephs,..familiar under the title of Jelly-fishes, Slobbers, and similar euphonious names.
▪ II. ˈslobber, a.
[f. prec. or next.]
1. Clumsy, awkward.
1866C. Spencer Mod. Gymnast 43 This [the short swing, or circle] is designated by the euphonious name of the ‘Slobber Swing’, as it is rather a clumsy way of doing it.
2. Wet and flabby.
1895Daily News 12 July 6/3 The crushed nose, the slobber lips, all red and wet.
▪ III. slobber, v.|ˈslɒbə(r)|
Also 5 slober.
[Related to slabber v. and slubber v. The vowel corresponds with that of Du. slobberen (Fris. slobberje) to slap up, to eat or work in a slovenly manner.
There is little evidence for the simple word before the 18th cent., but the compound by-slober beslobber occurs in ME. In the E.E. Allit. P. C. 186 the form sloberande is prob. an error for slomberande slumbering. Modern dialects exhibit some minor variations of sense not illustrated here: see the Eng. Dial. Dict.]
1. intr.
a. To feed in a slabbering or slovenly manner. Now dial.
14..in Wright Songs & Carols (Percy Soc.) 63 Nor bryng us in no dokes flesche, for thei slober in the mer. 1847in Halliw. 1877–89in Sheffield and Linc. glossaries.
b. To slaver. Cf. slabber v. 4.
1733Swift Life & Charac. Dean S. Wks. 1745 VIII. 125 But, why would he, except he slobbered, Offend our patriot, great Sir Robert. 1755Walpole Lett. 29 Sept. (1857) II. 472 As at present there are as many royal hands to kiss as a Japanese idol has, it takes some time to slobber through the whole ceremony. 1826Scott Woodst. xxii, Bevis slobbered and whined for the duck-wing. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 74 It was no light thing that..royalty should be exhibited to the world stammering, slobbering, shedding unmanly tears. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs II. 231 The old gentleman slobbered in a most infantine way.
c. dial. To blubber, to cry.
1878Cumbld. Gloss. 89/1 He slobber't an' yool't like a barn. 1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norf. 35 The terms for crying, such as slobber and blare.
d. fig. to slobber over, to be over-attentive or over-affectionate towards (someone); to be exaggeratedly enthusiastic about (something).
1825Scott Fam. Let. 21 Feb. (1894) II. 239 Think how many antiquarian chops have slobbered over the fiery trial. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claim. xiii. 139 They treat you as a tramp until they find out you're a congressman, and then they slobber all over you. 1914W. Owen Let. 28 Aug. (1967) 282 He received me like a lover. To use an expression of the Rev. H. Wigan's, he quite slobbered over me. 1927D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death iii. xxii. 257 Miss Climpson had little difficulty in reconstructing one of those hateful and passionate ‘scenes’ of slighted jealousy... ‘I do everything for you—you don't care a bit for me..!’ And ‘Don't be..ridiculous... Oh, stop it, Vera! I hate being slobbered over.’ 1978P. Theroux Picture Palace viii. 50 Even if they had slobbered over every blessed picture in the place they would not have understood.
2. a. trans. To wet in a dirty or disagreeable manner; to beslaver, befoul. Cf. slabber v. 1 and 2.
1709W. King Art of Cookery 29 The Cook that slobbers his Beard with Sack Posset. 1732–8Swift Polite Convers. 210 It is not handsome to see one hold one's Tongue; Besides I should slobber my Fingers. 1835Politeness & Good-breeding 67 Never cram your mouth so full, that..the contents..slobber your own cheeks and chin. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 241 They all wear pinafores; as if the British female were in the invariable habit of wearing this outer garment, or slobbering her gown without it. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. i. iii. (1872) I. 26 He..took to investigating one of his shoe-buckles; would..slobber it about in his mouth.
b. To make wet with kissing.
1724Swift Corinna Wks. 1755 III. ii. 154 She made a song, how little miss Was kiss'd and slobber'd by a lad. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 51 She..slobbered my cheek, and parted from me. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. 474 Whose cheek he slobbered with kisses.
3. To utter thickly and indistinctly.
1860Forster Gr. Remonstr. 98 He not only slobbered his words when he talked, but drank as if he were eating his drink. 1890Tablet 4 Jan. 10 Some person or other with unctuous eloquence slobbering out the shibboleth of civil and religious freedom.
4. a. To execute carelessly or in a slovenly way. Usu. with over.
1694Locke in Ld. King Life 204 Our Company of Stationers, having the monopoly here.., slobber them over as they can cheapest. 1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 339/1 [Water-colours] exceedingly rough and sketchy, not to say slobbered. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., To do work in a slovenly, untidy manner, is to slobber it over.
b. To slur over. rare—1.
a1734North Examen iii. vii. §99 (1740) 581 But see what false disingenuous Dealing here is to slobber over a base Business that will remain an eternal Shame to his Party.
c. To deal out in a clumsy manner. rare—1.
1859Trollope Bertrams xxii, She went on slobbering out the cards, and counting them over and over again.
d. To muddle away (a thing).
1889Daily Express (Dublin) 4 Feb. 2/7, I frankly owned that they had slobbered away the money since in an unjustifiable manner.
Hence ˈslobbered ppl. a. (also with on).
1811W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXV. 142 They did not, however, tolerate any slobbered work. 1862Scrope Volcanos 429 Overflowing waves of slobbered drops of highly viscid lava. 1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators 329 Syllables that drop like slobbered wine from the close shaven lip. 1880Paper & Print. Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 37 It was dulled and ruined by the slobbered-on paste. |