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slobber

[slob-er] / ˈslɒb ər /


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"They are soft, amazingly loyal and really friendly... there is some slobber."

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

This still wasn’t enough slobber for his audience, however.

From Salon May 14, 2025

But “you don’t want to be too precious about your outfit,” Ingram said, because “if you’re judging something like a Saint Bernard, you’re getting slobber on it.”

From Seattle Times May 8, 2023

It also sees a familiar Hollywood face attached to a most unfamiliar body, enacting the kind of dramatic, prosthetically enabled transformation the movie industry likes to slobber over.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2022

Meanwhile, one of his cohorts had his mouth on the coin slots, sucking out the jammed coins and leaving his slobber.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Axel slobbers on her lap, then lopes around the room, sniffing amethyst crystals, a conga drum and a gold Tibetan singing bowl.

From The Guardian Sep. 10, 2018

Don't teach me Dog,all eager to please; that slobbers, yaps and begs for a pat,that sits when told by its own, that's led on a lead.No, not that.

From The Guardian Jul. 24, 2012

Even though she has fleas, and slobbers a lot.

From Seattle Times Nov. 18, 2011

The woman bends down and coos, and he slobbers a little and starts to cry.

From The New Yorker Feb. 8, 2010

I kept picturing in my mind mad dogs and mad wolves reeling about with the blind staggers, drooling slobbers and snapping and biting at everything in sight.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Big, barkin’ Josh the Newfoundland slobbered around the ring, then nearly knocked over Ginger in the winner’s circle.

From Seattle Times Feb. 14, 2021

Others piled on those who "slobbered" over Avenatti before his downfall.

From Fox News May 22, 2019

Then I asked how he felt about being jumped on, slobbered on or getting mud all over his couch.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2017

It wasn’t his fault that Skip Bayless slobbered all over him and made outrageous statements such as “Tim Tebow is the next Brett Favre.”

From Washington Times Aug. 2, 2016

“I’ve gone through hell,” Ignatius slobbered, pulling Myrna into the hall by the sleeve of her coat.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

And unlike with her insults, Bondi rarely has to check her notes before slobbering over the imaginary perfection of men who can boost her career.

From Salon Oct. 13, 2025

Lizzie and Robbie, a bonded pig pair with bristly coats and a fondness for mouthing visitors’ shoelaces, were absolute champs, happily slobbering all over the big cotton swabs proffered by the scientists.

From New York Times Nov. 22, 2022

So it happened here Saturday in this home of No. 1 Georgia, with its otherworldly defense, its hedges and its cherished bulldog occasionally turning up on the big screen and slobbering gorgeously.

From Washington Post Oct. 16, 2021

Again and again, Diana and Barbara have to endure and deflect unwanted male attention; you may lose count of all the run-of-the-mill boors and slobbering predators they have to fend off, and you’re meant to.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2020

Sam had changed before his very eyes into an orc again, leering and pawing at his treasure, a foul little creature with greedy eyes and slobbering mouth.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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