Other forms: slavers
To slaver is to let saliva run from the mouth. Slavering dog, slavered over it, slavering jaws.
It is used of animals and, contemptuously, of people wanting something greedily — slavering over a prize. There is a separate noun slaver meaning a slave trader or a slave ship, which is spelled and written the same and comes from an entirely different word. Note slobber and slabber, which are relatives of the verb.
1verbslaverTo let saliva run from the mouth.
“The hungry dog slavered at the smell of the roasting meat.”
slaver is a drooling.
Also accepted in games: drool
Middle English slaveren comes from Old Norse slafra, probably imitative. The noun meaning a slave trader is a different word.
Old Norse
slafra — to slaver
Middle English
slaveren
English, today
slaver
From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative of the sound. a doublet of slabber.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA