drooly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

drool +‎ -y

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

drooly (comparative droolier, superlative drooliest)

  1. (informal) Producing an excess of drool.
    • 2007, A. L. Niflhaim, Gail McLeod, Christmas in Distress[1], page 85:
      Nestor leans down and pats NJ on the head and NJ jumps right up in his lap and gives him a big slurpy, drooly doggy kiss right on his face.
    • 1998, Anne McCracken, Mary Semel, A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies[2], page 58:
      Only I remember how my baby gurgled with joy at age three months and gave me a drooly, lop-sided grin when I entered her pretty sunshine-yellow room []
  2. (informal) Covered in drool.
    a drooly pillow