Meanings
present singular third person beslavers · participle present beslavering · participle past beslavered · past beslavered
- transitiveTo cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
Thereupon the fiend spat upon the clay body and beslavered it so foully, that when God came back he despaired of ever cleaning up the mess and saw himself reduced to the painful necessity of turning the body outside in. That is why a man's inside is now so dirty.
1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 22
Origin
From be- + slaver. Compare beslabber.
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beslaver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beslaver
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