👶 Covered in saliva 😍 Silly desire

drooly

1 8.6

Showing silly, obvious desire for a person or thing

adjective
/ˈdruːli/

Informal

: embobado

She gave her boyfriend a drooly smile as he walked through the door.

Examples

The dog looked up at me with big, drooly eyes, clearly wanting a treat.
The fans became drooly when the celebrity walked onto the stage.
He gave her a drooly smile that made everyone else roll their eyes.
She sent him a drooly message filled with heart emojis and compliments.
He gave her a drooly look that made her uncomfortable.
The drooliest puppy at the shelter won everyone's heart.
His drooly admiration for the celebrity was evident as he gushed about her latest movie.

Antonyms

indifferent

46 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

unimpressed

14 4.0

Not thinking something is good or interesting

How Infatuated

besotted

1 7.2

smitten

20 5.8

drooly

Informal

1 8.6

interested

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

drooly positive

Morphology

drooly = drool (semi-transparent) = drool + y

The adjectival form is a metaphorical extension from 'drool' (as in 'to drool over' someone), so the link is figurative rather than strictly literal.

Etymology

Drooly comes from drool ('saliva') plus -y meaning 'full of', and a helpful way to remember the figurative sense is to imagine someone 'drooling over' a celebrity or a tasty dish. That image of a person looking silly and full of desire explains why drooly can mean showing obvious or foolish admiration.