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Pronunciation:  drool

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  saliva spilling from the mouth
  2. [n]  pretentious or silly talk or writing
  3. [v]  let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"
  4. [v]  be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated"
 
 Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, dribble, dribble, drivel, drivel, humbug, salivate, slabber, slaver, slobber, slobber, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
 
 See Also: covet, drool over, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, saliva, salivate, slobber over, spit, spittle

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Drool\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drooling}.] [Contr. fr. drivel.]
To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
      His mouth drooling with texts.           -- T. Parker.
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

Dave's Recycled Object-Oriented Language. Language for writing adventure games. An updated implementation of AdvSys. multiple inheritance, garbage collection.

["Dave's Recycled OO Language", David Betz, Dr. Dobbs J, Oct 1993, pp.74-78].

 
 See Also: games

 

 

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