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drool

[drool]

verb (used without object)

  1. to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.

  2. to show excessive pleasure or anticipation of pleasure.

  3. to talk foolishly.



noun

  1. saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.

drool

/ ː /

verb

  1. to show excessive enthusiasm (for) or pleasure (in); gloat (over)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. another word for drivel drivel drivel

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of drool1

1795–1805; variant of driule, itself variant of drivel
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Word History and Origins

Origin of drool1

C19: probably alteration of drivel
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The invasive nature of it — gaping mouths, drool and other bodily fluid on full display — makes it an activity that makes us all feel deeply vulnerable.

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But at each dark turn our drooling, drunk genius finds an escape hatch, for better or worse, and something is soothing about that mercenary outlook.

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I had noticed her, especially because two of my buddies were drooling over her best friend who cruised the quad of the San Fernando Valley high school with the air of a temptress.

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“Our ladies are freaking drooling over him,” she wrote.

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