Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To besmear or befoul with spittle or anything running from the mouth; slobber over with effusive kisses; hence, to flatter in a fulsome manner or to a fulsome degree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to
beslobber with praise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
wet ,besmear , orbefoul withspittle or anything running from the mouth;cover inslobber ;bespawl . - verb transitive To slobber over with
effusive kisses;praise orflatter fulsomely or in afulsome manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When, after a long wait, and little suspecting what was going to be said to me, I was received in audience, it appeared that I had been summoned to receive a polite but decided admonition against wounding the susceptibilities of my listeners by expressions which were not "good form," and when I, unconscious of wrongdoing, asked which expression she alluded to, the unfortunate word "beslobber" was alleged; my young hearers were not
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884
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I had, it appears, about Heiberg's Klister and Malle, an inseparable betrothed couple, used what was, for that matter, an undoubtedly Kierkegaardian expression, viz., to beslobber a relation.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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When, after a long wait, and little suspecting what was going to be said to me, I was received in audience, it appeared that I had been summoned to receive a polite but decided admonition against wounding the susceptibilities of my listeners by expressions which were not “good form,” and when I, unconscious of wrongdoing, asked which expression she alluded to, the unfortunate word “beslobber” was alleged; my young hearers were not
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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Heiberg's _Klister and Malle_, an inseparable betrothed couple, used what was, for that matter, an undoubtedly Kierkegaardian expression, viz., _to beslobber a relation_.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884
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