slobber

plural slobbers

1. countableuncountableLiquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.

   There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.

2. countableuncommonuncountableA dribbly shower (of rain).

   "Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely."

   2014 March 27, Alan Garner, Thursbitch: From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker, Random House, →ISBN, page 93

   2 more examples

   I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows.

   1891, Belgravia: A London Magazine, page 22

   […] treading through the slobber of rain that evoked a past like morsels of unsavoury eternity, slid the motor-car showily tossing up wings of water. 'Hoi, Mag!' It was her fiancé, ruddy with twenty-five-year-old enthusiasm and grinning like an[…]

   1963, Harry P. Heseltine, Australian Idiom: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry, page 171

3. countableuncountableMud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber.

4. countabledateduncountableA jellyfish.
5. attributivecountableuncountableAttributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.

   slobber grass, slobber hay

present singular third person slobbers · participle present slobbering · participle past slobbered · past slobbered

1. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.

   All babies slobber.

   Synonyms: drool, slaver

2. rain; etc; rain; etcTo fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.

   […] rain slobbering into every nook.

   2009 March 26, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, Penguin UK, →ISBN

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   […] rain slobbered over New York. Fifty-eighth Street's construction debris ran in murky rivulets. Martin, Bagel and I walked single file on wood planks through Avon's rough board tunnel.

   1980, Elaine Suss, A Money Marriage: A Novel, →ISBN

   […] rain slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible.

   1992, LaJoyce Martin, The Other Side of Jordan, →ISBN

   All day rain slobbered through the streets, across lawns, into my grandfather's basement. He had an irrigation pump and three garden hoses, but he couldn't keep up.

   2005, The Georgia Review

   Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.

   2006 September 12, Warrior Girl, Sfx Fantasy / Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 14

   […] drool slobbered from the folds around its mouth. Eyes glowed, hot coals in the darkness.

   2007 02, Colin Harvey, Vengeance, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 155

3. uncommonTo wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.

   […] slobbering her own kisses on his neck.

   2011 August 15, Tamara McHatton, Call of Duty Book One: Deadly Obligations, Desert Breeze Publishing In, →ISBN

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   […] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her.

   2005 April 1, Alinka Zyrmont, (Please provide the book title or journal name), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 58

   […] spit-slobbered Brussels sprouts, gloopy gravy and snotty school custard.

   2014 May 1, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Really Rotten Experiments, Scholastic UK, →ISBN, page 28

   […] beast became friendly and wagged his tail and whined and slobbered his hand.

   2016 April 3, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains (1890), Read Books Ltd, →ISBN

   Leaves and rain slobbered the welcome mat under our feet, […]

   2022 February 14, Toni Rae, War Torn, Toni Rae Pacheco

4. colloquialTo kiss.

   Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.

   1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 165

5. slangtransitiveTo fellate.