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as in drooling
to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth
our dog always starts to slobber whenever we open a can of food
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as in raving
to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm
right on cue, his entourage of sycophants began to slobber over every inane thing he said
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Recent Examples of slobbering
Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
No more Romo slobbering, Star Wars is dead & what's the best time for an NFL game?
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
The testing period went on for weeks and included lots of slobbering, chewing, snuggling, snoozing, batting and chasing.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
Verb
Incontestably, love letters are, very often, slobbering slop.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
No more Romo slobbering, Star Wars is dead & what's the best time for an NFL game?
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
The testing period went on for weeks and included lots of slobbering, chewing, snuggling, snoozing, batting and chasing.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slobbering
Verb
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It’s known to cause drooling, diarrhea, colic, abdominal pain, depression and even death if your dog isn’t promptly treated.—
Amy DeYoung,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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Fans are already drooling over them.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
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Only 15 minutes of hands-on time goes into the side dish recipe that friends and family can't stop raving over.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
28 May 2026
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Shoppers are raving about the tightening and smoothing results of the Naturium Skin-Rewning Retinol Body Lotion.—
Olivia Dubyak,
InStyle,
23 May 2026
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Mok added that other foods may offer similar health benefits, especially for sleep, including walnuts, tart cherry juice, oily fish like salmon, and some herbal teas, although more research is needed.—
Stephanie Brown,
Verywell Health,
2 June 2026
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Their texture is oily and slightly crunchy, though still somewhat chewy.—
Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
31 May 2026
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In my experience, ChatGPT is still a pretty bad writer and can’t hack the existential risk involved in spitting out a compelling thesis.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
26 May 2026
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The man above is accused of spitting an unknown liquid on a CTA passenger on April, 19, 2026.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Perhaps no father-daughter duo is cooler than Lenny and Zoë Kravitz, but that doesn't mean the rocker is immune to all the gushy feelings fatherhood brings.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Social Security Administration sent a gushy, questionable email July 4 to millions of people collecting Social Security benefits and others.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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The concept of this many women vying for West is somewhat sickening to me.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
27 May 2026
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So united and powerful were these Indigenous people that some of their enemies started to get desperate, that whiff of anxiety taking on a sickening stench.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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These are soapy, sudsy materials that form a film over fire and starve it of oxygen.—
Carrie McDonough,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Wash your hands with hot, soapy water for at least 20 seconds and do it often.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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His widow doesn’t exactly look too broken up; less than a week after his death, Lee spots her snuggling with Dale’s brother Donald, an oleaginous candidate for governor played by Kyle MacLachlan.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.—
David Owen,
The New Yorker,
27 July 2024
Cite this Entry
“Slobbering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slobbering. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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