as in drool
the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands
our mouths filled with saliva when we smelled the delicious dinner
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Recent Examples of saliva
After this happened, her normal saliva flow resumed.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Chewing sugar-free gum: This stimulates saliva production without further damaging teeth.
—Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
The test, according to World Boxing, can be conducted via nasal or mouth swab, saliva, or blood.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 5 June 2025
In last week’s announcement, World Boxing said all athletes over the age of 18 will have to undertake a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) genetic test, which can be conducted by a nasal or mouth swab, saliva or blood.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Chewing sugar-free gum: This stimulates saliva production without further damaging teeth.
—Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
The test, according to World Boxing, can be conducted via nasal or mouth swab, saliva, or blood.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 5 June 2025
In last week’s announcement, World Boxing said all athletes over the age of 18 will have to undertake a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) genetic test, which can be conducted by a nasal or mouth swab, saliva or blood.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saliva
Noun
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Start with the dragon and its bizarre dog-like face, exaggerated fangs and dripping drool.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In language as deft and muscular as Rosa’s team, Drexler captures the scent of the blood and the resin, every wisecrack and sob story, every flake of talc and gob of spit, every pimple and blackhead on the lady wrestlers’ thighs.—
Lauren Elkin,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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The pig is then placed on a spit and slow roasted for several hours, until the meat is thoroughly cooked and the skin outside becomes perfectly crispy and crackled.—
Cat Sposato,
AFAR Media,
15 May 2025
Noun
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The mayor nodded and smiled, but also flinched, as though struck by spittle.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2024
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Filling the air with spittle as plentiful as the Allied bombs raining down along the English Channel.—
John Anderson,
WSJ,
31 Oct. 2023
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“Saliva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saliva. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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