slaverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈslævə/
• (米国発音) enPR: slăvʹər, IPA: /ˈslævɚ/
• 韻: -ævə(ɹ)

動詞

slaver (third-person singular simple present slavers, present participle slavering, simple past and past participle slavered)

1. (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
2. (intransitive) To fawn.
3. (intransitive, of saliva) To be drooled out of someone’s mouth.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27:

     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. (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
5. To be besmeared with saliva.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 7:

     should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol

同意語

• (emit saliva): drool, slobber

名詞

slaver (uncountable)

1. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
   • 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 6, lines 101–102:

     Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He went over to it, held it in his hands awhile, feeling its coolness, smelling the clammy slaver of the lather in which the brush was stuck.

語源 2

From slave (“enslave, traffic in slaves”) +‎ -er.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: slāʹvə, IPA: /ˈsleɪvə/
• (米国発音) enPR: slāʹvər, IPA: /ˈsleɪvɚ/

名詞

slaver (plural slavers)

1. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
   • 2013, John Christgau, Incident at the Otterville Station: A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 25:

     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”  […]

   1. A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
2. (nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.
   • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14:

     The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]

   • 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron‎, archived from the original on 29 November 2024:

     Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “slaver”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “slaver” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Lavers, arvels, larves, lavers, ravels, revals, salver, serval, velars, versal