slaver

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈslævə/    美 /ˈslævɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Saliva running from the mouth; drool. uncountable
    — Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.
  2. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
    — 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” […]
  3. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.; A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
  4. A ship used to transport slaves.
    — The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]
动词 v.
  1. To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. intransitive
  2. To fawn. intransitive
  3. To be drooled out of someone’s mouth. intransitive
    — A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.
  4. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth. transitive
  5. To be besmeared with saliva.
    — should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol

词形变化

slavers present,singular,third-person slavering participle,present slavered participle,past slavered past slavers plural

词汇关系

近义词
drool slobber
衍生词
slaverer slaveringly antislaver

词源

词源 1
From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.
词源 2
Etymology tree
substrateder.?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.?
Proto-Slavic *slov-
Proto-Slavic *-ǫta
Proto-Slavic *Slov-?
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ
Proto-Slavic *slověninъbor.
Byzantine Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der.
Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor.
Late Latin Sclavus
Medieval Latin sclavusbor.
Old French esclavebor.
Middle English sclave
English slave
English -er
English slaver
From slave (“enslave, traffic in slaves”) + -er.
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