单词 | slabber |
释义 | slabbern.1 1. Slaver; excessive saliva. Also slabber-like. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] slaverc1325 drivel?c1335 drivellingc1350 slaverings1535 slabber1718 drool1870 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle spattlec897 spoldOE spattlingc1000 speche?c1225 spita1300 spittinga1300 spotec1350 spittle1481 spettlea1500 salivation1601 spawlings1614 spawl1647 expectoration1650 snivel1698 slabber1718 outspitting1870 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 193 This Surface is supple, cover'd with a gluey slabber-like Liquor. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 140 The Slabber which may distil out of his Mouth. 2. Slobbering talk. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xvi. 44 The language of these people..is the most brutish and inhuman language..that could well be conceived of. It is a complete slabber. 3. Scottish. Soft mud; slop, slush. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] > a semi-fluid substance or mass sklucec1430 pap1435 slurryc1440 cream1540 batter1601 slabbermenta1620 swill1665 soss1691 porridge1700 cremor1701 sludge1702 semifluid1731 sludder1796 sloppery1832 slob1885 slabber1887 slather1928 gunk1949 1887 in D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 221/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). slabbern.2 a. A saw or machine for removing the outside slabs from timber, or dressing the outer portion of logs. b. A machine for dressing nuts or bolts. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2197/2. c. A workman who cuts or forms materials into slabs. An early form of the word may occur in the proper name Ric. Sclaber (1327), Ric. le Sclabber (1333): see Notes & Queries (1963) July 256/1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who shapes > specific shape squarer1422 bower1579 baller1825 fluter1858 beveller?1881 rounder?1881 slabber1921 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §118 Slabber, cements together tiles and other shaped articles for hearths, kerbs, etc. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §159 Slabber,..cuts blocks of gelatine..into slabs. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 381 Dyer's labourer; slabber (slang), slab dyer;..transfers dyed textiles from machine to draining slabs. 1977 New Society 25 Aug. 387/1 His heavy manual work as a fireplace ‘tile slabber’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). slabberv. Now chiefly dialect. 1. transitive. To wet or befoul with saliva; to beslaver or beslobber. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle spitc950 sputea1225 bespetea1240 bedravel1377 spouta1382 bespitc1384 beslobber1393 spew1526 slabber1579 beslaver1589 slaver1591 spittle1596 bespawl1602 drivel1609 bedribble1620 slop1696 bedrivel1721 slake1808 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 657 This was no great honouring of that holy yron, to put it to bee champed and slaboured in an horse mouth. 1619 R. Harris Drunkards Cup 28 A Spaniell..will leape vpon him, slabber his cloathes. 1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James i. 102 The K[ing] hung about his neck, slabboring his cheeks. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vi. 23 He..slabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, with his great Tongue. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxiv. 159 He..began to slabber his companions, with a most bear-like affection. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) vi. 151 How Gargantua mewls, and pules, and slabbers his nurse. 1865 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby (MS.) Slabber, to wet the thread with saliva in the process of spinning. 2. To wet in a dirty or disagreeable manner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > in a dirty or disagreeable manner beslobber1393 slobber1554 slabber1573 bedabble1600 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45 Hir milk pan & creame pot, so slabberd and sost. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 22/1 We were enclosed with most dangerous sands. There were we sowsd & slabberd, wash'd & dash'd. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses vi. 49 A pure and undecaying firmament, Which..Nor wet nor slabber'd is with showr of rain. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. vi. 138 A huge book..whose leaves, stained with wine and slabbered with tobacco juice [etc.]. 1901 Stafford Chron. 25 Oct. (E.D.D.) Cyclists on a wet day get slabbered. 3. To gobble up, swallow down, in a hurried or unrefined manner. Cf. slab v.2 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat coarsely slab?1553 slabber1574 slubber1640 slobber1726 slab1729 slorp1802 1574 J. Baret Aluearie S 426 To Slabber vp potage halfe hoate & halfe colde. 1682 Heraclitus Ridens 31 Jan. 2/2 Their leading men..void Pamphlets..so thick that their hungry Spectators cannot slabber them up fast enough. 1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation vii. 48 A course of Waters slabber'd down..do undoubtedly very much prolong the interval of fits. 4. intransitive. To let saliva flow or fall from the mouth; to slaver, dribble; to disgorge water. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] drivelOE slaverc1325 slobberc1400 drib1523 slabber1648 dribble1673 drool1810 slubberc1820 slob1860 slaum1911 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Zeeveren, to Slabber like young children. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1272/4 He is..given to slabber in his speech. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 217 Two young Tritons, and three Dolphins, that slabber into the same Bason. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xlii. 290 How did he use to hang, till he slabber'd again, poor doting old man! 1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Ode ii, in Poet. Epist. to Pope 34 Slabb'ring, whining,..crying. 5. To flow in a viscid or sloppy manner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [verb (intransitive)] > flow in sloppy manner slabber1653 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in a viscid or sloppy manner slabber1653 slop1853 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) ix. 164 Their spittle slabbering forth. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 172 The Mettal may spill or slabber over the Mouth of..the Mold. 6. Scottish. To work in a sloppy manner. ΚΠ 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1946) 137 This morning, when I came downstairs, I found Mr. Macdonald [sc. a sculptor]..slabbering away at the model. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders v. 55 All his work was only slabbering with paint. Derivatives ˈslabbered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with saliva slobberya1398 drivelledc1400 slaveryc1430 beslavered1598 slabbered1609 spittly1611 bespawled1612 slobbered1742 spittled1926 1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth vi. 3 Ouer all, he ware a slabberd Gowne. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iv. iii. 38/1 The rugged wrincles of her slabber'd face. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiv. 319 A hadden tongue..makes a slabbered mouth. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 46 A few..slabbered slices of pork. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11718n.21875v.1573 |
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