drool over sb/sth
— phrasal verb with drool uk/druːl/us/druːl/verb [ I ]
to show extreme and sometimes silly pleasure while looking at someone or something:
Roz and I sat by the swimming pool, drooling over all the gorgeous young men.
I left Sara in the shop drooling over a green silk dress.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking pleasure in something
- bask
- bask in sth
- bask/bathe in reflected glory idiom
- be a glutton for punishment idiom
- be a great one for sth idiom
- drool
- ecstasy
- glory
- have a ball idiom
- have a field day idiom
- have a rare old time idiom
- hedonic
- hedonism
- lap
- revel
- revel in sth
- ride (on) a wave of sth idiom
- self-indulgent
- slake
- soak
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