Drool vs Droop - What's the difference?
drool | droop |
to secrete saliva in anticipation of food
to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice
to talk nonsense
saliva trickling from the mouth
(lb) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
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* (Sylvester Stallone) (1946-)
(lb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
(lb) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
(lb) To allow to droop or sink.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
* (1809-1892)
something which is limp or sagging;
a condition or posture of drooping
As verbs the difference between drool and droop
is that drool is to secrete saliva in anticipation of food while droop is to sink or hang downward; to sag.As nouns the difference between drool and droop
is that drool is saliva trickling from the mouth while droop is something which is limp or sagging.drool
English
Verb
(en verb)- That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him
Synonyms
* (emit saliva ): slaver, slobber, drivelNoun
(-)Derived terms
* droolyAnagrams
*droop
English
(wikipedia droop)Verb
(en verb)- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop , the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
- I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
- I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
- Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
- when day drooped
Noun
(en noun)- He walked with a discouraged droop .