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verb (used without object)

to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.

to show excessive pleasure or anticipation of pleasure.

to talk foolishly.

noun

saliva running down from one's mouth; drivel.

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Origin:
1795–1805; variant of driule, itself variant of drivel

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Most of it comes from people whose shirt fronts are practically drenched in drool.

Universities all over the country would fight and drool over him.

These shifting ideas have in turn influenced policy, and to a degree that would make other social scientists drool.

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Most of it comes from people whose shirt fronts are practically drenched in drool.

Universities all over the country would fight and drool over him.

These shifting ideas have in turn influenced policy, and to a degree that would make other social scientists drool.

Waves were so large they would have made any surfing champion drool.

The payoffs for a few stray pet hairs and the occasional drop of drool are enormous, however.

If you can withstand yacht envy, stroll the docks afterward and drool over the costly boats.

Our personal decision to drool warps our sensory experience of the steak.

In short, law schools have the power to raise prices and expand in ways that would make any company drool.

Let the great unwashed learn to wipe the drool from their own chins rather than outsourcing it to a subsidized third party.

He is terrified of the car and will drool the entire time he's in there.

Still, it was a forward-thinking step that design nerds still drool over.

Commentators drool over other men's abs, thighs and guns.

The list of winning tipples should make any wine connoisseur drool.

Just the sight of him makes her drool uncontrolably, she has never drooled before.

Unfortunately, the search and ads company may be simply giving the public what it wants: product reviews to drool over.

They look cute, except for the part where they maul me and put big slobbery pools of drool all over me.

In the interim, there are plenty of build photos for us to drool over.

In other words, the abstract pitches have become a primal reward cue, the cultural equivalent of a bell that makes us drool.

Just as pushers make their best money off serious addicts, cardholders with revolving debt are the ones banks drool over.

And if the numbers are to be believed, people will drool.

Another snoring bed buddy a few years back tried the mouth guard and it helped the snoring but made her drool all over the bed.

Surely we're all grown up enough to be able to fly without needing to drool over the attendants.

At the end, all you're left with is drool and a mountain of baby powder.

The ambiance couldn't be friendlier, the food couldn't be more pleasant, and the wine list will make you drool.

Remember to wipe off the drool before disembarking.

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drool (druːl)

—vb (often foll by over)
1.	to show excessive enthusiasm (for) or pleasure (in); gloat (over)

—vb, —n
2.	drivel drivel another word for drivel

[C19: probably alteration of drivel]

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Word Origin & History

drool

1802, apparently dial. variant or contraction of drivel. Related: Drooled; drooling.

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DROOL definition

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Dave's Recycled Object-Oriented Language. Language for writing adventure games. An updated implementation of AdvSys. multiple inheritance, garbage collection.
["Dave's Recycled OO Language", David Betz, Dr. Dobbs J, Oct 1993, pp.74-78].

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