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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drool
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ Nicholas Cruz simply drools over the youngster who has made boxing an art form.
▪ And they drooled over its yellow and blue ironwork.
▪ It is Jewellery week in New York, with plenty to drool over.
▪ He had drooled over her - well, almost - when she wore them.
▪ Steve looked up from the menu he was drooling over and waited for her to go on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ This stupid dog drools all over the place.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they drooled over its yellow and blue ironwork.
▪ At thirty to forty-five minutes, mouthing and lip-smacking movements begin, and the infant begins to drool.
▪ So great, your co-workers will be drooling over it.
▪ Then, over a light lunch, which had set her mistreated tastebuds drooling, she had planned her strategy.
▪ These drooling mutts get into all sorts of trouble during their free time on the streets.
▪ This game shamelessly rips it off in a way that would have most copyright lawyers drooling.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drool

Drool \Drool\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooling.] [Contr. fr. drivel.] To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

His mouth drooling with texts. -- T. Parker.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drool

1802, apparently a dialectal variant or contraction of drivel. Related: Drooled; drooling. The noun is from 1860s.

Wiktionary
drool

n. saliva trickling from the mouth vb. 1 to secrete saliva in anticipation of food 2 to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice 3 to talk nonsense

WordNet
drool
  1. n. pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]

  2. saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: dribble, drivel, slobber]

drool
  1. v. be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated" [syn: salivate]

  2. let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble]

Wikipedia
Drool (film)

Drool is a 2009 American film, starring Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones, Oded Fehr, Ashley Duggan Smith, and Christopher Newhouse. The film itself speaks of sexual assault, teenage sex, homosexuals, verbal abuse and physical abuse.

Usage examples of "drool".

Cunningham was at their head, after showing a happily drooling Deadhead the cardboard box on the candy counter and leaving him to it.

Theodoric would have done better to send that drooling dotterel Severinus.

Baltis and Enam appeared to be mentally stripping them of their silken robes, while Prytanis all but drooled with lust.

That was there, all right, less likely than an accident on the flyway but worse to contemplate, brain miswired, or damaged, leaving her a drooling idiot.

Kyle started shaking violently, his arms and legs hyperextending, drool running down his neck.

According to this drooling clerk, Lettice was beautiful beyond pearls, wise, virtuous, kind, talented .

Nothing will cure him, not even the useless prayers of the dotard, drooling priests of Mitra as they croon foolishly to their weak, indifferent deity.

A hundred jars of put-up peaches, tomatoes, and ocra lay on the floor, as richly colored as a church window where the sun touched them, some smashed and drooling thick liquid.

Kat had never thought of herself as an ogler, but here she was practically drooling at the man she saw smiling rakishly at the camera.

I make no doubt you will between you produce little common babies, that mewl, pewl and roar all in that same tedious, deeply vulgar, self-centred monotone, drool, cut their teeth, and grow up into plain blockheads.

For many days after Everett had become just another scat on our tracks, Utahraptor and Pteranodon and I trudged across that dead landscape eyeing Ankylosaurus, drooling down our chins as we imagined the unspeakably tender morsels that must lie nestled inside that armored shell.

It still amuses him to recall every detail: Many many years ago, when the child had been born but was not yet able to grind his teeth because like all babies he had been born toothless, Grandma Matern was sitting riveted to her chair in the overhang room, unable as she had been for the last nine years to move anything except her eyeballs, capable only of bubbling and drooling.

Long long ago -- Brauxel counts on his fingers -- when the world was in the third year of the war, when Paulchen had been left behind in Masuria, Lorchen was roaming about with the dog, but miller Matern was permitted to go on toting bags of flour, because he was hard of hearing on both sides, Grandma Matern sat one sunny day, while a child was being baptized -- the pocketknife-throwing youngster of earlier morning shifts was receiving the name Walter -- riveted to her chair, rolling her eyeballs, bubbling and drooling but unable to compose one word.

Elizabeth had a tough time imagining Cesare Borgia roaming through the streets in a drooling blood lust since, in her view, he was one of the most able and civilized men of his time.

She hit the floor nimbly, and came right back, drool showing at the edges of her tusky mouth.