drivel

to slaver or slobber

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Close-up of a young adult man asleep with his head tilted sideways, a thin strand of saliva visibly running from his slightly open mouth down his chin toward a small damp patch on his pillow.

verb / noun

drool

DROOL/druːl/

To let saliva run from the mouth.

Etymology

droolEnglishto slaver or slobber

Drool apparently arose as a dialectal variant or contraction of drivel. Here drivel has its older, literal sense of slobbering or letting saliva run, rather than its later sense of speaking nonsense.

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