slaver

From Middle English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Cognate with slabber.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈslævə/
• (US) enPR: slăvʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈslævɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

slaver (third-person singular simple present slavers, present participle slavering, simple past and past participle slavered)

1. (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
2. (intransitive) To fawn.
3. (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
4. To be besmeared with saliva.
   • c. 1611, Shakespeare, William, Cymbeline, Act 1, Scene 7:

     should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol

• (emit saliva): drool, slobber

slaver (uncountable)

1. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
   • Alexander Pope

     Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

From the verb slave 'enslave, traffic in slaves'

• (UK) enPR: slāʹvə, IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪvə/
• (US) enPR: slāʹvər, IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪvɚ/

slaver (plural slavers)

1. A person engaged in the slave trade.
2. A white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'.
3. (nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.

• “slaver” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• arvels, larves, lavers, ravels, revals, salver, serval, velars, versal

Latin sclavus, whence also slave.

slaver c

1. Slav

slaver c

1. plural indefinite of slave

slaver

1. present of slave

slaver m

1. indefinite plural of slave

slaver

1. indefinite plural of slav