drool

1. 1.

   be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something

   “She was salivating over the raise she anticipated”

   Synonymssalivate

   Broadercovet
2. 2.

   let saliva drivel from the mouth

   “The baby drooled”

   Synonymsdrivelslabberslaverslobberdribble

   Broadersalivate

Other forms of drool

plural

drools·

past tense

drooled·

present participle

drooling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drool

What does drool mean?

drool means "pretentious or silly talk or writing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drool?

drool has 1 syllable: drool. In IPA it is /ˈdɹul/.

What is another word for drool?

Close synonyms include baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, humbug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drool a common word?

drool is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.