drool

/drul/

/drul/

Other forms: drooling; drooled; drools

The dampness that forms in your mouth when you smell something delicious is drool. When it actually drips from your mouth, you drool.

The official term for drool is saliva. Babies drool, dogs drool — we all drool sometimes. Sometimes people drool (or salivate) because of problems with their salivary glands. You might drool when you skip breakfast and your friend offers you a warm, homemade cinnamon roll. The word comes from drivel, which today means "speak nonsense," but originally had the sense of "to slobber or run at the nose."

Definitions of drool

1. noun

   saliva spilling from the mouth
   synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber

   type of:

   saliva, spit, spittle

   a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
2. verb

   let saliva drivel from the mouth
   “The baby drooled”

   synonyms: dribble, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber

   type of:

   salivate

   produce saliva
3. noun

   pretentious or silly talk or writing
   synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle

   type of:

   bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality

   a message that seems to convey no meaning
4. verb

   be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something
   synonyms: salivate

   type of:

   covet

   wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person)