From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra, probably imitative.

• (British) IPA: /ˈslævə/
• (America) enPR: slăvʹər, IPA: /ˈslævɚ/

slaver (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.

• (emit saliva) drool, slobber

• French: baver
• German: sabbern, geifern
• Italian: sbavare

slaver (uncountable)

1. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
   • 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC ↗, page 6 ↗, lines 101–102:

     Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗:

     He went over to it, held it in his hands awhile, feeling its coolness, smelling the clammy slaver of the lather in which the brush was stuck.

From slave + -er.

• (British) enPR: slāʹvə, IPA: /ˈsleɪvə/
• (America) enPR: slāʹvər, IPA: /ˈsleɪvɚ/

slaver (plural slavers)

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

• French: marchand d'esclaves, esclavagiste, négrier, négrière
• German: Sklavenhändler, Sklavenhändlerin, Sklavenhalter, Sklavenhalterin
• Italian: schiavista, negriero, negriere, negriera
• Portuguese: escravista, negreiro, negreira
• Russian: работорго́вец
• Spanish: esclavista, negrero, negrera

• French: navire d'esclaves