v.; also 4–5 bislaber. [f. BE- 1 + SLOBBER v.] To wet and befoul with saliva (= to BESLAVER), or with portions of liquid food escaping from the mouth; to kiss like a drivelling child; hence, to kiss childishly or effusively; fig. to cover with fulsome flattery.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VIII. 1. Tho cam sleuthe al by-slobered [B. V. 392 bislabered] with two slymed eyen.
1828. Macaulay, Hallam, Ess. (1851), I. 84. The salaried Viceroy of France … beslobbering his brother and courtiers in a fit of maudlin affection.
1866. Blackw. Mag., Aug., 245.
| When a man is beslobbered by high and by low, | |
| In our Senates and Schools deemed a Light of the age. |
