verb / noun

drool

DROOL/druːl/

To let saliva run from the mouth.

The sleeping man drools onto his chin and pillow.

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.

Etymology

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.

In context

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he still couldn t cook a dish that would make people drool just by smelling it.

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More examples

She wipes the drool from her baby's chin.
Some dogs drool when they smell food.
I sometimes drool in my sleep.

Forms

drool · drools · drooled · drooling

Similar words

slobber: Suggests heavier or messier saliva spilling from the mouth.
salivate: Means producing saliva, not necessarily letting it escape.
saliva: Names the mouth's fluid, whether or not it drips out.