drooly

English

Etymology

drool +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːli

Adjective

drooly (comparative droolier, superlative drooliest)

1. (informal) Producing an excess of drool.
   • 2007, A. L. Niflhaim, Gail McLeod, Christmas in Distress‎^[1], page 85:

     Nestor leans down and pats NJ on the head and NJ jumps right up in his lap and gives him a big slurpy, drooly doggy kiss right on his face.

   • 1998, Anne McCracken, Mary Semel, A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies‎^[2], page 58:

     Only I remember how my baby gurgled with joy at age three months and gave me a drooly, lop-sided grin when I entered her pretty sunshine-yellow room […]

2. (informal) Covered in drool.

   a drooly pillow