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drool

/dɹuːl/

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Northern Ireland/dɹʉl/

drool verb: to secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.

Verb

drool (third-person singular simple present drools, present participle drooling, simple past and past participle drooled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
    Synonyms:
    slaver, slobber, dribble
  2. (ambitransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.
    • The alien beast drooled slime.
  3. (figuratively, informal, intransitive) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
    • That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him!
  4. To talk nonsense; drivel.

Noun

drool (usually uncountable, plural drools)

  1. (usually) Saliva trickling from the mouth.
  2. (colloquial, usually) Stupid talk.

drool meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

drool in Tamil

எச்சில் வடி, ஜொள்ளு விடு, ஆசைப்படு, முட்டாள் தனமான, அர்த்தமில்லாத தொடர்ச்சியான பேச்சு

drool in Urdu

رال بہنا

drool in Bengali

drool, saliva
লালা lala
to drool
লালা lala

drool in Malayalam

slaver, salivate, dribble
തുപ്പൽ ഒലിക്കുക, ഈത്ത ഒലിക്കുക, ഈത്താ ഒഴുക്കുക, ഉമിനീരൊലിക്കുക, ചൊള്ളുക, ചാളുക
saliva, spit, spittle
ഉമിനീർ, വാൽ, തുപ്പൽ, വായിൽ ഊറിവരുന്ന വെള്ളം, ഉമിഴ്നീർ, ഉമിണീർ
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drool in Kannada
ಜೊಲ್ಲು ಸುರಿಸು, ನಿಷ್ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಶಂಸಿಸು
drool in Arabic
أَسَالَ لُعَابًا ʔasāla luʕāban, هَذَى haḏā
drool in Indonesian
mengiler

Examples of drool in a sentence

  • If she even thought about the crunchy, ring-shaped sweet bread, she practically drooled.
  • Why do so many women turn into drooling idiots when it comes to a smooth talking man?”
  • A really derpy, mugly caveman, with a sloping forehead, a drooling mouth and Dwayne's buzz cut.

All 23 example sentences with drool

Synonyms of drool

Forms of drool

Verb
third-person singular presentdrools
present participledrooling
past participledrooled
pastdrooled
Noun
pluraldrools

Past tense of drool: drooled

Origin of drool

From earlier drule, apparently a corruption of drivel (compare snool from snivel). Compare also Middle English drullen (“to stagger, drool”), Dutch druilen (“to be listless, snooze”).

Words formed from drool

Phrases with drool

Words that rhyme with drool

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Questions about drool

What does drool mean?
Drool means to secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
What is drool in Tamil?
Drool in Tamil is எச்சில் வடி, ஜொள்ளு விடு, ஆசைப்படு. See Drool meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is drool?
Drool can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce drool?
Drool is pronounced /dɹuːl/.
What is the past tense of drool?
The past tense of drool is drooled.

Words near drool in the dictionary

  1. droogs
  2. drook
  3. drooked
  4. drooking
  5. drooks
  6. drool
  7. drool bucket
  8. drool buckets
  9. drool-proof
  10. drooled
  11. drooler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drool (page history and authors); drool (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drool (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); লালা (Bengali) (page history and authors); drool (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); drool (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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