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▪ I. drool, v. orig. dial.|druːl|
Also dreul, drule.
[Contracted form of drivel v.]
= drivel v., in various senses; spec. = drivel v. 5. Cf. droul v. Hence drooled ppl. a.; drooler; drooling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1802‘Peter Pindar’ Middlesex Election vi, in Wks. (1816) IV. 213 Old Pynsant, the mad fool, (Beginning, I suppose, to drule), Play'd zich a mazeg'rry trick. 1810Monthly Mag. XXIX. 434/2 ‘Dreuling away my time’; that is, ‘drivelling away my time’. 1847–78Halliwell, Drool, to drivel. Somerset. 1854Thoreau Walden iv. (1886) 124 [A frog] with his chin upon a heart-leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps. a1860T. Parker in Dean Life (1877) 159 (D.) His mouth drooling with texts. 1869Illinois Agric. Soc. Trans. VII. 179 The peculiarity of the drooling which characterizes this disease is that the drooled matter is filled with air bubbles, and may be described as ‘frothy’ drool. 1878A. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 290 There may be drooling of saliva and other indications of bulbar degeneration. 1879J. D. Long æneid iii. 803 Blood and morsels soaked in blood and wine Did drool. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Drule, to drivel. 1880Courtney & Couch Gloss. Cornwall 19/2 Druler, a driveller; a fool. 1923Wodehouse Inimit. Jeeves xii. 130, I never know, when I'm telling a story, whether to cut the thing down to plain facts or whether to drool on and shove in a lot of atmosphere. 1924Glasgow Herald 22 Nov. 10 The peppery leaders of the ‘Morning Post’, the dull-witted leaders of ‘The Times’, and the droolings of the ‘Observer’. 1925W. S. Maugham Painted Veil xlix. 166 An idiot with..large vacant eyes and a drooling mouth. 1931A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle 13 The thought of it..sent a little river of saliva drooling from the corner of her mouth. 1950M. Edwards White Riders xii. 138 Rissa glanced up from bed⁓making, a quick frown on her face. ‘Oh, do buck up! Drooling away!’ 1964L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. ii. 38 An awful drooling lech!
▪ II. drool, n.|druːl|
Also dreul, drule.
[Cf. drool v.]
1. Sc. (See quots.)
1825Jamieson Suppl. I. 352/1 Drule,..one who is slow and inactive, a sluggard, South of S[cotland]. 1923G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-Bk. 117 Drool,..a slothful person; a sluggard.
2. Drivel, spittle. U.S. colloq.
1869[see drool v.]. 1947J. Steinbeck Pearl (1948) iii. 36 A little thick drool of saliva issued from his lips.
b. Nonsense; foolish or empty talk; = drivel n.2 2. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1900in Dialect Notes II. 33. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xxv. 314 Say, Doc, I been readin' them reformatory drools of yours. 1928Daily Express 6 Aug. 11 That sentimental drool. 1966N. Freeling Dresden Green i. 94 He switched the radio on—no short wave, and the medium band was filled with drool. |