drooled; drooling; drools
1
a
: to secrete saliva in anticipation of food
The dog hears the bell and begins to drool.
b
: to let saliva dribble from the mouth : drivel sense 2
a drooling baby
2
3
: to talk nonsense
: to express sentimentally or effusively
Synonyms
Verb
Noun
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- slush
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
- twaddle
Examples of drool in a Sentence
Verb
the dog drooled when we put the steak down on the floor
middle-aged men drooling over a starlet half their age
Noun
He wiped the drool from the baby's face.
the only thing more pathetic than the pop psychologist who gushed such drool was the public that lapped it up
Recent Examples on the Web
Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
And Terry's pitch-perfect execution had her followers drooling.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Common symptoms of a rapid squirrel include walking in circles, falling over, drooling, aggression, and seizures and muscle spasms, Critter Control reports.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
And Terry's pitch-perfect execution had her followers drooling.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
Nate Burleson to haters of NFL's promo clip featuring Taylor Swift: 'Wipe the drool off your tank top'
Burleson didn't hold back while addressing the critics who decried seeing Swift in an NFL hype video.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Drool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drool. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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drool
intransitive verb1
: 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
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