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单词 drool
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drooln.

Brit. /druːl/, U.S. /drul/
Forms: Also dreul, drule.
Etymology: Compare drool v.
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.

Brit. /druːl/, U.S. /drul/
Forms: Also dreul, drule.
Etymology: Contracted form of drivel v.
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. 29 434/2Dreuling 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).
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