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the body's enthusiastic overflow when joy outpaces the ability to swallow.
means To let saliva or drool spill messily from the mouth, often from a dog, a baby, or anyone too excited or sleepy to manage it.
from From the Middle English 'sloberen,' to be slovenly or eat messily — likely born from the same wet, mouthy sound-pool that gave us 'slabber' and 'slubber,' and a probable cousin of the Low German and Dutch 'slabberen,' to lap or eat noisily. It's an imitative word: the sloppy 'sl-' that English reaches for again and again when something is wet and loose — slop, slush, slime, slurp — the mouth describing its own lack of restraint.
- dog math
- A Saint Bernard can produce a quart of drool daily.
- chemical glue
- Saliva proteins help slobber cling defiantly to walls.
- heat hack
- Drooling dogs cool down through evaporation, not sweat.
- word roots
- Slobber descends from medieval Dutch slubberen, to swallow sloppily.
- sign of love
- Excited dogs salivate more around favorite humans.
saint bernards — breed known for excessive drooling, can produce up to 0.75 liters of saliva daily
bloodhounds — hunting dogs with loose jowls that drool heavily while tracking scents
bulldogs — distinctive facial structure causes constant slobbering, prized show dogs