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drool /druːl /verb [no object]1Drop saliva uncontrollably from the mouth: the baby begins to drool, then to cough...- When Cordelia puts some of the stuff in her mouth, she rolls it around in her mouth, looks terrified, and drools uncontrollably.
- She stirred and then opened her mouth and began to drool.
- All our mouths dropped, and began to drool, I know Jesse did.
Synonyms salivate, dribble, slaver, slobber, drivel, water at the mouth; Scottish slabber 1.1 informal Make an excessive and obvious show of pleasure or desire: I could imagine him as a schoolmaster being drooled over by the girls...- And now that I've drooled over Danny's site, my eyes are wandering over to the cupboard where I keep a secret stash of notebooks, colouring pencils and of course a supply of purple pens.
- Another girl friend drooled over Steve McQueen.
- While the sales lady took 45 minutes to ring it up, I drooled over the jewelry and pointed out items for the kid to tell her father to get for me.
noun [mass noun]Saliva falling from the mouth: a fine trickle of drool leaked from the corner of his mouth...- Bill was staring at Heather with a small puddle of drool just waiting to fall from the edge of his parted lips.
- I know sometimes I drop the act and my eyes glaze over and a droplet of drool trickles from the corner of my mouth.
- The hideous fangs that hung from his mouth were covered in drool, releasing a deadly, foul odour.
Synonyms saliva, spit, spittle, dribble, slaver, slobber OriginEarly 19th century: contraction of drivel. RhymesBanjul, befool, Boole, boule, boules, boulle, cagoule, cool, fool, ghoul, Joule, mewl, misrule, mule, O'Toole, pool, Poole, pul, pule, Raoul, rule, school, shul, sool, spool, Stamboul, stool, Thule, tomfool, tulle, you'll, yule |