drooly
adj/ˈdɹuːli/
Etymology From drool + -y.
1
Informal Producing an excess of drool.
- Nestor leans down and pats NJ on the head and NJ jumps right up in his lap and gives him a big slurpy, drooly doggy kiss right on his face.2007, A. L. Niflhaim, Gail McLeod, Christmas in Distress, page 85:
- Only I remember how my baby gurgled with joy at age three months and gave me a drooly, lop-sided grin when I entered her pretty sunshine-yellow room […]1998, Anne McCracken, Mary Semel, A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies, page 58:
2
Informal Covered in drool.
- a drooly pillow
- Derived terms
- drooliness