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Meanings of drool in English
Portuguese
mexerico Catalan
poca-soltada Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Synonyms
Examples for "humbug"
Examples for "humbug"
1
Of course some in Detroit have an answer to Lovins's visions: humbug.
2
Never let it be said I was bah humbug about Christmas traditions.
3
Nothing can hurt so much in the end as lies and humbug.
4
All this unification of nationalities is the great humbug of the century.
5
Let us say in passing, that the American does not like humbug.
1
I wish you'd drop that sort of sentimental bosh, Skipper; especially now.
2
Oh, he wanted to come, but I put the kye-bosh on that.
3
What you call bosh is the only thing men dare die for.
4
He must surely be aware that much he said was superstitious bosh.
5
If my reader finds this bosh and abracadabra, all right for him.
1
Don't believe that tosh about Lansdowne Road being dead in the water.
2
Say how grieved you are and all the rest of the tosh.
3
Finish by asking him does he get paid for this tosh.
4
I mean, roping you in to listen to this frightful tosh!
5
What if this was sentimental tosh, the cruelest lie of all?
1
Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
2
Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle?
3
They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
4
We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
5
The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
1
Yet some critics in the health care profession say that's all baloney.
2
Other scientists said baloney-thatpowerful new cooling methods would eventually condense them.
3
He said: We want no more stunts or PR baloney from Boris.
4
Award-winning science fiction author Brian Aldiss has another term for it: baloney.
5
That was a lot of baloney you had in the paper .
1
All I tried to do was to make her forget the tommyrot.
2
I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing tommyrot.
3
And we all said it was tommyrot, and she was to tell us.
4
Seems to me it's as good as the tommyrot you write.
5
Can you imagine our minds embracing each other, thrilling at the contact,-oh ,it'stommyrot.
1
He turned his head and looked at the hatchet in the boat's bilgewater.
2
The hatchet still lay in the bloody bilgewater.
3
At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling bilgewater.
4
Tess suddenly found herself pinned to the ceiling of her boat with bilgewater surging around her head.
5
The tracks led off the beaten track, down the path not taken, through a sleepy hollow, over a tarn of brackish bilgewater.
1
I hesitated; then resolved on a taradiddle,-inMarjorie's interest.
2
You'll have to-Another little taradiddle in his chest.
3
His heart did a jagged taradiddle and he held his breath... but then it settled again.
4
Considering that it was about six-thirty, I wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle now; but I resisted the temptation, and replied-
5
Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles.
1
Nobody will care about you if you are a phony boloney.
2
I speared the tiny ball of boloney a Specimen to examine.
3
What a load of boloney.
4
Such is not appearing to happen so I will go eat a boloney & cheese sandwich with a glass of ice tea with it.
5
"You've got a piece of boloney stuck in your teeth Ray." While I poked around my Canines he spoke to me very sincere.
1
Well;- Itoldhim a tarradiddle of course.
2
It will be for you, gentlemen, to decide where there is any grain of truth in all this tarradiddle.
3
I've no right to come here after all the tarradiddles I told you.
4
'There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?'
5
"So it seems you can't tell a tarradiddle for me?"
Usage of drool in English
1
For nearly 20 years, Shemar Moore has been making the ladies drool.
2
A long, glistening thread of drool detached itself and fell onto me.
3
Water began to drool through the holes and over the opened-up skin.
4
They are serious seizures, but he doesn't shake and drool or convulse.
5
But I made it safely, without collapsing into a puddle of drool.
6
The Crown Loyalists would just drool if you were at their meetings.
7
The drool-worthy star even made it to the film's red carpet Sunday.
8
His bladder had let loose and there was drool on his chin.
9
Voluminous drool poured out, falling down toward the base of the cylinder.
10
You wake-up the next day in a pool of your own drool.
11
Some drool fell from the corner of one of the men's mouths.
12
It felt funny on his tongue and made him drool a bit.
13
You almost screamed like a woman. Amirah wiped drool from her lips.
14
I lifted my head up, and wiped the drool off my cheek.
15
Thomas tried to speak, but only drool came out of his mouth.
16
Well, did you see the hem on my gown-mud ,acid ,dogdrool?
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Drool through the time
Drool across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common