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Definition: Drool |
DroolNoun1. Pretentious or silly talk or writing. 2. Saliva spilling from the mouth. Verb1. Be envious, desire, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated". 2. Let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drool" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Drool \Drool\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Drooled; present participle verb or noun Drooling.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DROOL |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DroolSynonyms: baloney (n), bilgewater (n), boloney (n), bosh (n), dribble (n), drivel (n), humbug (n), slobber (n), taradiddle (n), tarradiddle (n), tommyrot (n), tosh (n), twaddle (n), salivate (v), slabber (v), slaver (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drool |
| English words defined with "drool": Dreul, Drooled, Drooling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drool": games. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let's try something new, because I know that most couples when they first get together are inclined to slam on the brakes because they're concerned about Bob Rumson's drool. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Dogs rule and cats drool. (Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco; writing credit: Chris Hauty) I'm a genius; therefore I can afford to drool. (Aeon Flux; writing credit: Mario Sábato) Between the 101-proof breath and the occasional bits of drool, some interesting words come out. (Leaving Las Vegas; writing credit: Mike Figgis) You don't drool. (All That Jazz; writing credit: Robert Alan Aurthur; Bob Fosse) | |
Clever | Sleeping on the job: I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Animals with "dumb" rabies appear depressed, lethargic, and uncoordinated. Gradually they become completely paralyzed. When their throat and jaw muscles are paralyzed, the animals will drool and have difficulty swallowing. Credit: CDC. |
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| "Contented Mitsou" by Caron Wiedrick Commentary: "Caught this close up of my Mitsou in a contented pose. Although I didnt get this as sharp as I would have liked, its that droplet of drool that makes me keep coming back..:)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Leary | Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A person having a severe seizure may cry out, fall to the floor unconscious, twitch or move uncontrollably, drool, or even lose bladder control. (references) | |
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| "Drool" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Drool" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 55.56% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 27.78% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drool": drool over ♦ drool over smth.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drool": drool-proof, drool-proof paper. | |
Ending with "drool": point-and-drool. | |
Containing "drool": point-and-drool interface. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
daily drool | 28 |
to drool | 20 |
moose drool | 17 |
cum drool | 14 |
drool job | 10 |
beer drool moose | 8 |
cat drool | 7 |
drool fic | 4 |
conference drool | 3 |
drool index jpg | 3 |
drool smiley | 3 |
drool bib | 3 |
dog drool | 3 |
drool gag | 2 |
drool girl | 2 |
drool job planet | 2 |
cum cum deep drool gag in shot throat | 2 |
drool sleep | 2 |
brother drool | 2 |
cum drool fiesta | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drool"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dokrra (balderdash, drivel, flummery, footle, moonshine, poppycock), pallavra (drivel, jiggery pokery, palaver, piffle), nxjerr jargë (drivel), jargëzoj (salivate), jargë (drivel, froth, slaver, slime, slobber, spittle), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), entuziazmohem me tepri. (various references) | |
Arabic | لعاب سائل (drivel), تحمس ل (keen), سال لعابه (dribble, drivel, salivate, slaver, slime, slobber). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лигавя се (beslobber, dribble, slaver, slobber), лигавене (slobber). (various references) | |
Czech | slintat (dribble, drivel, salivate, slaver, slobber). (various references) | |
Farsi | یاوه سراءی کردن (Rant), گلیز (Drivel, Slobber), اظهارخوشحالی کردن , ادم احمق (Birdbrain, Poop, Snip, Zombi(Ie)), اب ازدهان تراوش شدن . (various references) | |
French | saliver, radoter (drivel), baver (dribble). (various references) | |
German | geifern (be bursting with venom, salivate, slaver, slobber). (various references) | |
Greek | σαλιαρίζω (drivel, slaver, smooch, splutter, sputter), μωρολογώ (drivel, fudge, piffle, prattle, twaddle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להזיל ריר (dribble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyál (drivel, gob, saliva, spit, spittle), ostoba fecsegés (blather, blether, drivel), badar beszéd (drivel, gibber). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengiler (slobber), ileran. (various references) | |
Italian | sbavare (dribble, dribble down, dribble over, drivel, smear, smudge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 涎 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よだれ. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sikle, sikkel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooldray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | babar-se (dribble, drivel, foam, slaver, slobber). (various references) | |
Russian | чепуха (apple, apple sauce, baloney, blah, boloney, fiddledeedee, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, galimatias, jiggery-pokery, mush, piece of nonsense, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, tommy rot, trumpery), нести чепуху, пускать слюни. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | balaviti (slobber, snivel). (various references) | |
Spanish | caerse a uno la baba, babear (dribble, slaver, slobber). (various references) | |
Swedish | dregla (dribble, drivel, salivate, slaver, slobber), dilla (drivel, waffle), prata smörja (drivel). (various references) | |
Thai | พูดโง่ๆ, น้ำลาย (drivel, flob, mucoid, slobber), ปล่อยน้ำลายไหล (drivel, slabber). (various references) | |
Turkish | salyası akmak (dribble, drivel, slaver, slobber), saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), ağzı sulanmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпускати нюні (drivel, slaver), верзти нісенітницю (drivel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mũi dãi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drool": drooled, drooling, drools. (additional references) | |
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"Drool" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darfold, Dartoll, darul, deroualt, d'oeil, d'oil, dool, doolb, doooom, dooooo, dorel, D'oulx, draal, dreo, drial, driol, driom, dro, droal, droall, droc, droe, Droi, droily, drol, drolo, droo, droob, drood, droog, drook, droole, drooly, droom, droon, drowl, dru, druel, druil, Drukov, drul, drule, grool, prool, rool, trool. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drool" (pronounced druw"l) |
| 3 | -r uw" l | misrule, rule. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dolor. | |
| Words within the letters "d-l-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: door, lord, odor, ordo, rood. | |
-2 letters: dol, dor, loo, old, rod. | |
-3 letters: do, lo, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: dolors, dolour, drools. | |
+2 letters: boodler, colored, decolor, dolours, doodler, drooled, flooder, floored, lardoon, lordoma, malodor, odorful, reflood. | |
+3 letters: bloodier, bloodred, boodlers, bordello, broodily, coholder, colorado, coloreds, coloured, condoler, decolors, decolour, discolor, doctoral, doloroso, dolorous, doodlers, doorbell, doorless, doornail, doorsill, drooling, droopily, flooders, folderol, foretold, fourfold, gardyloo, girlhood, goodlier, holdover, hydrosol, idolator, lardoons, loanword, lordomas, lordoses, lordosis, lordotic, malodors, moorland, odorless, odourful, overbold, overcold, overhold, overload, overlord, overloud, oversold, prologed, refloods, relooked, retooled, roothold, toroidal, uropodal, woodlark, woodlore, workload. | |
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