单词 | drool |
释义 | drooln. 1. Scottish. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Drule, one who is slow and inactive, a sluggard. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 117 Drool,..a slothful person; a sluggard. 2. a. Drivel, spittle. U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] slaverc1325 drivel?c1335 drivellingc1350 slaverings1535 slabber1718 drool1870 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 179 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. 1947 J. Steinbeck Pearl iii. 48 A little thick drool of saliva issued from his lips. b. Nonsense; foolish or empty talk; = drivel n.2 2 colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1900 Dial. Notes 2 33. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xxv. 314 Say, Doc, I been readin' them reformatory drools of yours. 1928 Daily Express 6 Aug. 11 That sentimental drool. 1966 N. Freeling Dresden Green i. 94 He switched the radio on—no short wave, and the medium band was filled with drool. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). droolv. Originally dialect. = drivel v., in various senses; spec. = drivel v. 4a. Cf. droul v. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] drivelOE slaverc1325 slobberc1400 drib1523 slabber1648 dribble1673 drool1810 slubberc1820 slob1860 slaum1911 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 1810 Monthly Mag. 29 434/2 ‘Dreuling away my time’; that is, ‘drivelling away my time’. 1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Middlesex Election vi, in Wks. IV. 213 Old Pynsant, the mad fool (Beginning, I suppose, to drule), Play'd zich a mazeg'rry trick. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Drool, to drivel. Somerset. a1860 T. Parker in P. Dean Life & Teachings T. Parker (1877) 159 His mouth drooling with texts. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid iii. 803 Blood and morsels soaked in blood and wine Did drool. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 19/2 Drule, to drivel. 1921 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vii. 118 You might think you were somebody, to hear you drool. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable 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. 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle 13 The thought of it..sent a little river of saliva drooling from the corner of her mouth. 1950 M. Edwards White Riders xii. 138 Rissa glanced up from bed~making, a quick frown on her face. ‘Oh, do buck up! Drooling away!’ Derivatives drooled adj. ΚΠ 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 179 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. drooler n. ΚΠ 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 19/2 Druler, a driveller; a fool. drooling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 137 [A frog] with his chin upon a heart-leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps. 1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 290 There may be drooling of saliva and other indications of bulbar degeneration. 1924 Glasgow Herald 22 Nov. 10 The peppery leaders of the ‘Morning Post’, the dull-witted leaders of ‘The Times’, and the droolings of the ‘Observer’. 1925 W. S. Maugham Painted Veil xlix. 166 An idiot with..large vacant eyes and a drooling mouth. 1964 L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. ii. 38 An awful drooling lech! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825v.1810 |
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