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your body's worst-timed standing ovation for things you can't have yet.
means To let saliva drip uncontrollably from the mouth, or figuratively to gush with helpless longing over something.
from A variant of "drivel," which comes from Old English "dreflian," meaning to dribble or run at the mouth. The form "drool" emerged in the 19th century as a slangier, slipperier cousin — same idea of spit escaping its station, just with a wetter sound to match the act.
- Daily output
- You make up to two liters of saliva
- Pavlov's proof
- Dogs drooled for bells, founding modern psychology
- Sleep slip
- Swallowing slows at night, so pillows pay
- Teething tide
- Babies drool because saliva soothes sore gums
- Venom origin
- Snake venom evolved from modified saliva glands
for instance
pavlov's dogs — classical conditioning experiment where dogs salivated at bell sound, russia 1890s
saint bernard rescue dogs — alpine rescue dogs famous for excessive drooling, swiss alps breeding