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/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uːl

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
2. (transitive, intransitive) 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

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)

  Mandarin: 流口水 (liú kǒushuǐ)

  Min Nan: 流瀾／流澜 (lâu-nuā)

  Hakka: 該跃跃／该跃跃 (kôi-yok-yok)

• 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
• 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 (es)
• Swedish: dregla (sv)
• Walloon: blefer (wa), gleter (wa)
• West Frisian: flyberje
• Zazaki: gıleski

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, hablar tonterías

Noun

drool (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• drool bucket
• droolsome
• drooly
• droolworthy

Translations

saliva

• Armenian: լորձունք (hy) (lorjunkʿ), շողիք (hy) (šoġikʿ)
• 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