Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also slabber) to kiss; also in fig. use (see cite 1821).

1583		P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 99: For what clipping, what culling, what kissing and bussing, what smouching and slabbering one of another.
1789		G. Parker Life’s Painter 139: Bung all come back once more / They slabber’d little Joey.
1821		Cobbet’s Wkly Pol. Register 8 Sept. 28/2: May the whole nation never know sway or friendship other than those of that worthy pair Castlereagh and Sidmouth, whom they are now huzzaing, huugging and slobbering.
1863		G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 238: This Lord was much given to hugging and slobbering.
1875		Tamworth Herald 8 May 3/7: She could be careful not to slobber a kiss [...] There is much virtue in a kiss when well delivered.
1894		Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 26 July4/4: Pretty ladies make friends wherever they go [...] they meet again, and of course kiss and slobber over each other.
1908		Sporting Times 2 May 1/5: When Moses went to meet his father-in-law, ‘he did obeisance and kissed him,’ and the nasty habit still obtains amongst most great rulers—and some boxers. Pedlar Palmer, for instance, invariably slobbered his man.
1914		Manchester Courier 10 Feb. 8/6: I’ll tell you what marriage is — it’s slobber, giggle and snigger.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 198/1: Slobber, v. To give a slobber.

2. in prize-fighting, unscientific if enthusiastic punching.

1824		Annals of Sporting 1 Mar. 200/1: Slobbering was the order of the day, science was sent to the dogs, and they both rattled away.
1824		Annals of Sporting 1 May 361/2: Nothing of consequence was done but slobbering in the next ten rounds.

3. to talk sentimental, mawkish nonsense.

1836		Westmorland Gaz. 14 May 2/3: ‘John Podishpot,’ who annoys us with his ridiculous nonsense from Askham, is an A.S.S. [...] Let him slobber on.
1875		Luton Times (Beds.) 24 July 4/6: They are gone now, thank goodness, perchance to slobber and gush with the Ward Beechers.
1884		(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 212: By and by the king he gets up and comes forward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle.
1903		Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Nov. 29/2: They want a thing who’ll cadge them jobs, / From Beersheba to Dan; / They want a fraud who’ll creep for votes / And kiss the voter’s toe, / Who’ll meekly slobber every friend, / And fawn on every foe.
1914		‘Bartimeus’ ‘That which Remained’ in Naval Occasions 95: She evinced no outward desire to ‘slobber’.
1926		K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 115: There would be no slobbering ... none of this blather about love.
1927		K. Nicholson Barker II i: A nipple like you goes out an’ sleeps with the first sexy little dame he meets up with an’ then slobbers about love!
1930		J. Lait Put on the Spot 75: Kinky was potted, but he sat up with a jerk an’ he slobbers at me an’ wants to know what the hell.
1931		Western Dly Press 18 June 7/4: The host of harpies who are always eager to pounce upon the occupants of perambulors and slobber over them.
1947		B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 289: Even the people who had been [...] putting the knock on him, were slobbering about what a pal they had lost.
1951		J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye (1958) 133: Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.
1965		(con. 1930s) R. Wright Lawd Today 62: If you talk to a crackbrain two minutes he’ll start slobbering about Roosia!
1978		P. Theroux Picture Palace 49: Even if they had slobbered over every blessed picture in the place they would not have understood.
1997		Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 4 May 23/1: ‘I really (slobber, slobber, slobber) like you man,’ he lied.
1999		Guardian Weekend 20 Nov. 39: A malevolent tom-kitten who persuades his smothering mother to stop slobbering all over him.

4. (US) to cry.

1904		Marvel 22 Oct. 5: I tink it’s better dan slobbering like a whipped child.
1917		‘A-No. 1’ From Coast to Coast with Jack London 35: Society will slobber over and tenderly care for every hobo who receives a deserved bump.
1930		‘Dean Stiff’ Milk and Honey Route 214: Slob sister – a moocher who weeps to his clients.
1934		J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 97: ‘Don’t you slobber either,’ he warned.
1947		C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 35: That meant eight more licks [...] so the freshman began to slobber like hell, just begging up a storm, saying it’d kill him.
1949		H. Miller Sexus (1969) 470: When it came to home and mother they slobbered like wailing mice.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 209: He was crying. ‘Shut up your slobbering, Tubbs.’.
2007		W.D. Myers ‘the life you need to have’ in What They Found 55: ‘I’ll just [...] end up slobbering all over the place. You ever see how bad I look when I cry?’.

5. to masturbate.

1977

A. Brooke Last Toke 127: Jive ole Mr. Simon don’t know what he missin’ slobberin’ ’stead o’ pokin’.