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Drooling vs Dribbling - What's the difference?

drooling | dribbling |

As verbs the difference between drooling and dribbling

is that drooling is while dribbling is .

As nouns the difference between drooling and dribbling

is that drooling is the act of one who drools while dribbling is an amount of liquid that is dribbled.

drooling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * droolingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who drools.
  • * 2013 , James Nairne, Psychology (page 209)
    • Pavlov referred to these premature droolings as “psychic” secretions, and he began to study why they occurred, in part to avoid future contamination of his digestion experiments.

    dribbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
  • * 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
    • In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
  • * 1866 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
    • From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor