Other forms: drooling, drools
To drool is to let saliva run out of your mouth. Drooling in his sleep, the dog drooled, drool over the pictures.
It is normal in babies and in some dogs whose lips do not seal, and new drooling in an adult can signal a nerve or swallowing problem. Figuratively, to drool over something is to admire it greedily. The word is a worn-down form of drivel.
1verbdroolTo let saliva run out of the mouth.
“The dog began to drool as soon as it smelled the meat.”
drool is a bodily action.
Also accepted in games: dribble
An altered form of drivel, from Old English dreflian, to slobber.
From earlier drule, apparently a corruption of drivel (compare snool from snivel). Compare also Middle English drullen (“to stagger, drool”), Dutch druilen (“to be listless, snooze”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA