drooly

/ˈdɹuːli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

Informal

adj

Informal

"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."
"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 […]"
"a drooly pillow"

Etymology tree English drool Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English drooly From drool + -y.

droolier (comparative) drooliest (superlative)

drooliness

truly well and truly newly julie duly unruly cruelly coolly coolie coulee hooley tule

Questions

How do you pronounce drooly?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɹuːli/.

What does drooly mean?

Producing an excess of drool.

Where does drooly come from?

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