slaver
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈslævə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) enPR: slăvʹər, IPA(key): /ˈslævɚ/
- Rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)
Verb edit
slaver (third-person singular simple present slavers, present participle slavering, simple 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.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 7:
- should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
to drool saliva
Noun edit
slaver (uncountable)
- 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.
Etymology 2 edit
From slave (“enslave, traffic in slaves”) + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: slāʹvə, IPA(key): /ˈsleɪvə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) enPR: slāʹvər, IPA(key): /ˈsleɪvɚ/
Noun edit
slaver (plural slavers)
- A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, or owns slaves.
- 2013, John Christgau, Incident at the Otterville Station: A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 25:
- The continued fight between abolitionists and slavers in Missouri caused slave owners to refuge slaves to the Confederate interior. But some Union forces that made salients into rebel territory insisted that the slaves were “contraband” […]
- A white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'.
- (nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.
- 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14:
- The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]
Translations edit
a person engaged in the slave trade
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slave ship
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References edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “slaver”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Via Medieval Latin Sclavus and Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos) from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Compare also English Slav and German Slawe. The Medieval Latin word was also used for “slave” (cf. Danish slave).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
slaver c
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
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slaver c
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
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slaver
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
slaver m pl
Swedish edit
Noun edit
slaver
- indefinite plural of slav