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drooly

drooly

1 5.8
Covered in wet liquid from the mouth, often making a mess
  • adjective
  • /ˈdruːli/
translation icon : baboso
  • After eating, she had a drooly grin, with bits of food stuck to her cheeks.

Examples

  • Oh, boy, I bet now you think I'm just gonna crawl and beg for you... ...to pet me like a drooly little dog.

    The Anderson Tapes (1971)

  • On the one hand, this is a bummer in that it basically guarantees that I'm going to end up looking drooly and dead-eyed three nights out of seven or so.

    Blog text (10)

  • - To pet me like a drooly little dog.

    The Anderson Tapes (1971)

  • A little drooly.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

  • You see O'Brien's Dog Ranch (imagine the hellhounds they breed out there—bald, probably, plus drooly and big as ninth-graders).

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The baby laughed and smiled, revealing his drooly face as he played with his toys.

  • My puppy always leaves a drooly mess on the kitchen floor after drinking water.

Synonyms

slobbery
vsdrooly
1 3.6

Very wet and covered in saliva like a dog's mouth

is about messy saliva on anything not limited to animal origin

How Drooly

slobbery
1 3.6
drooly
1 5.8
wet
800 1.0
damp
11 1.0
dry
791 1.0

Surface Forms

drooly positive

Morphology

drooly = drool (transparent) = drool + y

The adjective is a direct adjectival formation from 'drool' meaning 'covered with or producing saliva'.

Etymology

Drooly comes from the verb drool ('to let saliva fall') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of'. So it literally means 'full of drool' — think of a teething baby or a tired dog with a wet chin, which is why drooly describes something covered in saliva.