drool

¹drool

verb \ˈdrül\

Definition of DROOL

intransitive verb

1

a : to secrete saliva in anticipation of food

b : drivel 1

2

: to make an effusive show of pleasure or often envious or covetous appreciation

3

: to talk nonsense

transitive verb

: to express sentimentally or effusively

Examples of DROOL

1. <the dog drooled when we put the steak down on the floor>
2. <middle-aged men drooling over a starlet half their age>

Origin of DROOL

perhaps alteration of drivel

First Known Use: 1802

Related to DROOL

Synonyms

dribble, drivel, salivate, slaver, slobber

Related Words

water; expectorate, spit; foam, froth, splutter; sputter

Near Antonyms

articulate, enunciate, pronounce

Rhymes with DROOL

boule, boulle, cool, fool, fuel, ghoul, gul, mewl, mule, pool, Poole, pul, pule, rule, school, spool, stool, tool, tulle, yule

²drool

noun

Definition of DROOL

1

: saliva trickling from the mouth

2

: nonsense

Examples of DROOL

1. He wiped the drool from the baby's face.
2. <the only thing more pathetic than the pop psychologist who gushed such drool was the public that lapped it up>

First Known Use of DROOL

1869

Related to DROOL

Synonyms

applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, nonsense, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle

Related Words

absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus

Near Antonyms

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

drool

intransitive verb \ˈdrül\   (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of DROOL

1

: to secrete saliva in anticipation of food

2

: to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth <side effects included drowsiness and drooling>

—drool noun