Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
A dribbly shower (of rain).
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.
Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
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From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”)....
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To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
[…] 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.
To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
[…] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her.