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”).
drool (third-person singular simple present drools, present participle drooling, simple past and past participle drooled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
- (transitive, intransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.
The alien beast drooled slime.
- (intransitive, informal, figurative) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him!
- To talk nonsense; drivel.
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
- 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
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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
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drool (uncountable)
- Saliva trickling from the mouth.
- (colloquial) Stupid talk.
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
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