What's the difference between slaver and slobber?

Slaver


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
  • (n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
  • (v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
  • (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
  • (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
  • (n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although diplomacy would probably preclude them from saying otherwise, after last night's events at Camp Nou, it's probably safe to say that both Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will be slavering at the prospect of facing suspension-ravaged Chelsea in the final of this year's Champions League .
  • (2) Twelve Years a Slave stars McQueen's fellow Briton Chiwetel Ejiofor as a real historical figure named Solomon Northup whose 1853 autobiography details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
  • (3) As if that weren't enough, Daenerys Targaryen, accompanied by her menacing trio of dragons and army of Unsullied, is poised to liberate Meereen, the largest city in Slaver's Bay, which could ultimately provide her with enough ships to sail to Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne."
  • (4) Legalisation keeps pimps, brothel keepers, and sex-slavers in freedom and riches.
  • (5) days before the 2018 World Cup vote, the English bid is starting to feel like complicity in the supreme authority's slavering pursuit of the game's astronomical wealth, both over and underneath the counter.
  • (6) Then Mr Huhne actually turned on the Tories: "If you keep beating the anti-European drum, if you slaver over tax cuts for the rich, you will … wreck the nation's economy and common purpose!"
  • (7) We are supposed to slaver enviously at this ostentation; if we don’t, we condemn ourselves as losers.
  • (8) She first developed vesicles and ulcerations in oral and laryngeal mucous membranes, showing a hoarse voice and fits of coughing with excessive slavering.
  • (9) Was Ramsay Snow’s concubine running away from a pack of slavering dogs or Iwan’s album listening party?
  • (10) To contemporary readers, Crusoe's attitude to non‑whites is unpalatable; he sells a fellow shipwreck survivor to slavers, and his relationship with Friday seesaws queasily between friendship and servitude.
  • (11) Sly Bailey, as the chief executive of a company with voracious institutional shareholders slavering in the background, doesn't have that sort of clout.
  • (12) Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson), 12 Years a Slave is a true horror story that sees an affluent black American, born free in New York state, kidnapped by slavers in 1841; he wakes up in bondage before being transported to the south where he's passed from master to master.
  • (13) When milk, slaver, nasal secretion, mastitis secretion and blood were offered to flies as feeding substrates only the last three produced significant increases in feeding duration in comparison to controls offered distilled water.
  • (14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
  • (15) McQueen's screenplay is based on Northup's 1853 autobiography, which details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
  • (16) It is often a beautiful and uplifting film but does not flinch from showing the breathtaking cruelty of the slavers.
  • (17) Morocco This season Morocco has formed the backdrop to Dany's ransacking of Slaver's Bay, with scenes shot in Essaouira and Aït Benhaddou near Ouarzazate.
  • (18) "To complement this, Britain has also been a nation of emigration, sending 'settlers' to countries such as North America, Australasia and Southern Africa, usually displacing their original inhabitants; traders, investors and slavers all over the world; and conquerors and rulers to India, Africa and elsewhere.
  • (19) Where they slavered with voracious self-interest, the NHS symbolised courageous self-sacrifice for the good of all.
  • (20) Speaking to US television talk-show host and journalist Charlie Rose, Lucas quipped that he had sold his “kids … to the white slavers that take these things”.

Slobber


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) See Slabber.
  • (n.) See Slabber.
  • (n.) A jellyfish.
  • (n.) Salivation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five bouncing boys, who eagerly lick Paul Ryan's face and slobber all over his jacket, as per the Onion .
  • (2) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
  • (3) The signs, treatment, and prevention of several conditions, such as leukoencephalomalacia, aflatoxicosis, ergotism, fescue toxicity, slobbering disease, ryegrass staggers, and moldy sweet clover disease, are discussed.
  • (4) There were many times during Sky1's Pineapple Dance Studios when I observed Andrew "I'm A Triple Threat" Stone mooing on about the unknowable margins of his talent and thought quietly to myself, "This show would be better if Andrew was being attacked by slobbering dogs, or having his innards ruptured by a professional wrestler, or simply having machetes fired at his silly face while he sings Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild."
  • (5) Jeremy Corbyn’s critics were poised to attack, and pundits were slobbering at the mouth at the prospect.
  • (6) In fact it was the Sun newspaper slobbering "Alex Ferguson has declared it is 'Squeaky Bum Time' again".
  • (7) I was nudged by one of the taut, muscular bodies, scantily covered in its tiny red tartan cotton robe, and I had to make a decision: be a warrior by joining the front line to protect my tribe from a snorting, slobbering 500kg bitch of a buffalo, or stay on the sidelines by hustling up a tree to watch from above as the true warriors went to battle.
  • (8) Then, in case all this passed you by, along comes Cujo : and in the giant, slobbering, seemingly unstoppable dog, we find the bluntest metaphor for addiction yet presented in King's oeuvre (a title it would hold until Misery and The Tommyknockers ).