drool

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹuːl/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /dɹʉl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

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.
2. (ambitransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.

   The alien beast drooled slime.

3. (intransitive, informal, figurative) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.

   That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him!

4. To talk nonsense; drivel.

Synonyms

• (emit saliva): slaver, slobber, drivel

Derived terms

• cats rule, dogs drool
• drooler

Translations

to secrete saliva

• Arabic: أَسَالَ لُعَابًا (ʔasāla luʕāban)
• Bulgarian: лигавя се (ligavja se), текат ми лигите (tekat mi ligite)
• Catalan: salivar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 流口水 (lau⁴ hau² seoi²)

  Hakka: 該跃跃 (kôi-yok-yok)

  Hokkien: 流瀾 / 流澜 (lâu-nuā)

  Mandarin: 流口水 (liú kǒushuǐ)

• Czech: slintat (cs)
• Danish: savle
• Dutch: kwijlen (nl)
• Esperanto: salivi
• Faroese: sleva
• Finnish: kuolata (fi)
• French: saliver (fr), baver (fr)
• Galician: babexar, babar
• German: sabbern (de), geifern (de)
• Greek: σαλιάζω (el) (saliázo)
• Hebrew: הזיל ריר (hizíl rir)
• Hungarian: nyáladzik (hu) (in a strictly medical sense), csorog a nyála, csorgatja a nyálát
• Icelandic: slefa (is)
• Indonesian: mengiler (id)
• Italian: sbavare (it), salivare (it), schiumare (it)
• Latvian: siekaļot, siekaļoties
• Maori: hāwareware
• Norwegian: sikle (no)
• Polish: ślinić się (pl)
• Portuguese: salivar (pt), babar (pt)
• Romanian: saliva (ro)
• Russian: пуска́ть слюну́ impf (puskátʹ sljunú), слюня́вить (ru) impf (sljunjávitʹ), наслюня́вить (ru) pf (nasljunjávitʹ), заслюня́вить (ru) pf (zasljunjávitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слинити, ба̏лавити

  Roman: sliniti (sh), bȁlaviti (sh)

• Slovak: slintať
• Spanish: babear (es), salivar (es), babosear / ensalivar (transitive), hacerse agua la boca hacerse la boca agua
• Swedish: dregla (sv)
• Walloon: blefer (wa), gleter (wa)
• West Frisian: flyberje
• Zazaki: gıleski

to react to something with uncontrollable desire

• Spanish: babear por, caerse la baba por

to talk nonsense

• Arabic: هَذَى (haḏā)
• Bulgarian: говоря глупости (govorja gluposti)
• Czech: (informal) žvanit (cs)
• Finnish: höpistä (fi)
• German: Quatsch reden, Scheiße reden, dumm schwätzen
• Hungarian: badarságokat/​ostobaságokat/​marhaságokat/​szamárságokat/​hülyeségeket beszél/​hord össze, zagyvál (hu)
• Italian: sproloquiare, cianciare (it), blaterare (it), parlare a vanvera
• Portuguese: falar merda
• Russian: говори́ть глу́пости impf (govorítʹ glúposti), поро́ть чушь impf (porótʹ čušʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: govoriti gluposti, lupetati (sh), baljezgati (sh)
• Spanish: hablar disparates / tonterías

Noun

drool (usually uncountable, plural drools)

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

Derived terms

• drool bucket
• droolsome
• drooly
• droolworthy
• grool

Translations

saliva

• Armenian: լորձունք (hy) (lorjunkʻ), շողիք (hy) (šoġikʻ)
• Basque: lerde (eu)
• Bulgarian: лиги (bg) pl (ligi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口水 (zh) (kǒushuǐ)

• Danish: savl n
• Esperanto: bavo
• Faroese: sleva f, slev n
• Finnish: kuola (fi)
• French: bave (fr) f
• Galician: baba (gl) f, baballa f
• German: Sabber (de) m, Geifer (de) f, Gesabbere n, Spucke (de) f, Speichel (de) m
• Ido: bavo (io)
• Italian: bava (it) f, sputo (it) m
• Japanese: 涎 (ja) (よだれ, yodare), 唾 (ja) (つば, tsuba)
• Portuguese: baba (pt) f
• Romanian: bale (ro) f pl
• Russian: слю́ни (ru) f pl (sljúni)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слине f pl

  Roman: sline f pl

• Spanish: baba (es) f
• Swedish: dregel (sv) n

Anagrams

• dolor, loord