drooling

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drooling

/ˈdɹuːlɪŋ/

Rhymes with -uːlɪŋ

noun droolings

Salivation. Pavlov referred to these premature droolings as “psychic” secretions, and he began to study why they occurred, in part to avoid future contamination of his digestion experiments.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of drool

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: slaver, slobber, slabber, bosh, drivel, tommyrot, twaddle, tarradiddle, boloney, baloney, humbug, taradiddle, bilgewater, tosh, dribble, chatting

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@misc{drooling_2026,
  title = {drooling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drooling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}