Crossword clues for salivating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salivate \Sal"i*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salivated; p. pr. & vb. n. Salivating.] [L. salivatus, p. p. of salivare to salivate. See Saliva.] To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. v. i.
To produce saliva, esp. in excess.
To drool.
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(Fig.) To anticipate keenly with pleasure, as though salivating at the expectation of a delicious meal. Used often with over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise.
Note: Probably influenced by the experiments of Pavlov, who trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, by previously ringing the bell immediately prior to feeding them.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of salivate English)
Usage examples of "salivating".
For the curtain had been drawn away, and the entire area, floor to ceiling, was composed of a gallery of the most disgusting miscreants of Jabba’s court -gawking, salivating, wheezing.
Since Wesley Clark entered the race, Democrats have been salivating over the prospect of a presidential candidate who is a four-star general - and has the politics of Susan Sarandon!
I mean, they're salivating because they get another chance to get into all of these issues.
Paxton, gape-jawed and bulge-eyed, his trembling, cold-sweating flesh only inches from the white-gleaming, salivating gates of hell.
But there was more: A snarling visage: the merest glimpse of dripping fangs, salivating leathery lips, pointed ears and grey fur.
And the face on that creature: the flame-eyed, salivating, grinning, panting visage of hell itself!