DROOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drool mean? 

• DROOL (noun)
  The noun DROOL has 2 senses:

1. pretentious or silly talk or writing

2. saliva spilling from the mouth

  Familiarity information: DROOL used as a noun is rare.

• DROOL (verb)
  The verb DROOL has 2 senses:

1. be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something

2. let saliva drivel from the mouth

  Familiarity information: DROOL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretentious or silly talk or writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle

Hypernyms ("drool" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Saliva spilling from the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

dribble; drivel; drool; slobber

Hypernyms ("drool" is a kind 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)

Derivation:

drool (let saliva drivel from the mouth)

• DROOL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they drool    ... he / she / it drools   
Past simple: drooled   
Past participle: drooled   
-ing form: drooling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

drool; salivate

Context example:

She was salivating over the raise she anticipated

Hypernyms (to "drool" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue drool over the results of the experiment

Sense 2

Meaning:

Let saliva drivel from the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

dribble; drivel; drool; slabber; slaver; slobber

Context example:

The baby drooled

Hypernyms (to "drool" is one way to...):

salivate (produce saliva)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Also:

drool over (envy without restraint)

Derivation:

drool (saliva spilling from the mouth)

drooler (a person who dribbles)

 Context examples 

Ebbits drooled a little and stopped his rocking very frequently to lean forward and thrust his tremulous nose nearer to the source of gustatory excitement.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

One Eye watching, felt a sudden moistness in his mouth and a drooling of saliva, involuntary, excited by the living meat that was spreading itself like a repast before him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A subtype of cerebral palsy characterized by involuntary, purposeless writhing movements which affect the hands, feet, arms, and legs; the face and tongue may be affected as well, leading to involuntary grimacing, drooling, dysarthria and difficulty eating.

(Athetoid Cerebral Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)

Her mouth opened, the saliva drooled forth, and she licked her chops with the pleasure of anticipation.

(White Fang, by Jack London)