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as in saliva
the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands
the dog got slobber all over our tennis ball
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as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
I couldn't make out any of the panhandler's slobber, but I gave the poor soul a buck anyway
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Recent Examples of slobber
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2026
Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber.
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Dec. 2025
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
The pig slobbers mud on my right leg as Grace jaunts away.
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Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Since then, the two have had multiple heated skirmishes to build up what pro wrestling fans expected to be an absolute slobber knocker.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2026
Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber.
—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
This time around, under Rupert Goold’s actor-forward direction and with Guirgis’s distinctive voiciness, the story has more in common with the canine of its title — there’s a little more swagger, sweetness, and slobber, a little more desire to please.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
The pig slobbers mud on my right leg as Grace jaunts away.
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Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slobber
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Testing of saliva later confirmed infection with a bat rabies virus variant.
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The virus is shed in wild bird saliva, nasal secretions and feces, so even droppings near the coop can carry it.
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The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
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Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
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Isaacs said the symptoms of heat stress or heat stroke include excessive panting, drooling, vomiting, seizures or collapse.
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This golden lasagna is the perfect way to offer a vegetarian option that meat-eaters will be drooling over.
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Amazon has deals on the exact brands the multi-hyphenate wears and raves about, plus pieces pulled straight from her playbook (cough, her Instagram, cough).
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Elizabeth Stanziano reluctantly visited Norfolk, Virginia's Sail 250 festival after her mother raved for weeks about seeing the tall ships during the Bicentennial.
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The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.
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Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
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Over a Nineties hip-hop beat, East Coast to be exact, Czarface’s Inspectah Deck and Esoteric spit their verses before Hardy, er, Pulitzer comes in.
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After being asked to leave the property by officials, Zimmerman spat toward a hotel security officer, prompting staff to call the police.
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Until recently, that would have sounded like absolute nonsense.
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There weren’t meetings with executives about tone and mood and all this nonsense.
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Emmys season is about ot begin, and with it, a slew of contenders destined for nominations and memorialization by way of snubs chatter.
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There is a lot of chatter out there on the interwebs about who will and won’t be in the house for Big Brother season 28.
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“Slobber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slobber. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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