| VERB | emotion | drool, salivate | be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something |
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| body | drool, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble | let saliva drivel from the mouth | |
| NOUN | communication | drool, baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | pretentious or silly talk or writing |
| body | drool, dribble, drivel, slobber | saliva spilling from the mouth |
| Sounds | druw'l | |
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| Rhymes | Blackpool ... Yule: 48 rhymes with uwl... | |
| Meaning | pretentious or silly talk or writing. | |
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| Synonyms | baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | |
| Broader | nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum | A message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning |
| Usage of | slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
| Spanish | bobadas, boloney, chorradas, disparates, tonterías | |
| Catalan | bajanades, bestiesa, boloney, disbarat, poca-soltada, ximpleria | |
| Meaning | saliva spilling from the mouth. | |
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| Synonyms | dribble, drivel, slobber | |
| Broader | saliva, spit, spittle | A clear liquid / liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth |
| Spanish | baba, babaza, babosadas, espumarajo, leseras, saliva | |
| Catalan | bava, ximpleries | |
| Verbs | drool | let saliva drivel from the mouth |
| Meaning | Be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | Sam and Sue drool over the results of the experiment | |
| Synonym | salivate | |
| Broader | covet | wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person) |
| Spanish | babear | |
| Meaning | Let saliva drivel from the mouth. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "The baby drooled" | |
| Synonyms | drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble | |
| Broader | salivate | produce saliva |
| See also | drool over | envy / envy without restraint |
| Spanish | babear, babosear, salivar | |
| Catalan | bavejar, degotar, gotejar | |
| Nouns | drool | saliva spilling from the mouth |
| drooler | a person who dribbles | |
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