slaver
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
slaver (slavers, present participle slavering; past and past participle slavered)
- (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
- (intransitive) To fawn.
- (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
- To be besmeared with saliva.
slaver (uncountable)
- Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
- 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], OCLC 6363280 ↗:
- Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.
slaver (plural slavers)
- A person engaged in the slave trade.
- A white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'.
- (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
- Spanish: esclavista, negrero, negrera
- French: navire d'esclaves
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