What does drool mean?
Word: Drool
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Drool means to let spit drip out of your mouth, as babies do or as a dog does when it smells food.
Synonyms: dribble, slobber
How do you spell drool?
Syllables: drool
Tricky part: The long oo sound can be spelt in many ways (ue, ew, u_e), but drool always uses a double o.
Watch out for: drule, drewl, droole
Memory tip: Draw the two o's of drool as the round eyes of a hungry puppy staring at a biscuit.
Idioms and Phrases
- drool over: to look at something and want it very much Example: "Kabir drooled over the shiny new cycle in the shop window."
Drool in a sentence
Example 1: Babies often drool in their sleep.
Example 2: The smell of hot pancakes made me drool.
Example 3: Our cat drools a little when she purrs on my lap.
Fun Fact
Babies drool a lot because they have not yet learnt to swallow all the saliva their mouths make.
Practise the CREST Way
Sound Check
Which word does not rhyme with drool?
a) wool
b) school
c) rule
d) cool
Show answer
a) wool. Wool rhymes with full; school, cool and rule all have the long oo sound of drool.
Jumble Tumble
Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:
olrdo 12345
a) 34152
b) 43152
c) 43125
d) 45132
Show answer
b) 43152. Begin with d (letter 4) and r (letter 3); the two o letters and the l follow.
Word Champ
Choose the correct word for the blank:
When Bruno sees his food bowl, he starts to ______ all over the floor.
a) drawl
b) drool
c) drill
d) droop
Show answer
b) drool. A hungry dog lets spit drip from its mouth; to droop is to hang down and to drawl is to speak slowly.
Spell Spies
Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:
Our puppy began to drool when Grandma opened the tin of his favrite biscuits.
a) drool and favrite
b) only favrite
c) only biscuits
d) puppy and tin
Show answer
b) only favrite. Favourite keeps o-u-r in the middle: f-a-v-o-u-r-i-t-e.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When a baby drools, what is Mum most likely to reach for?
a) a warm woolly cap
b) a bottle of hair oil
c) a soft bib or cloth
d) a pair of new socks
Show answer
c) a soft bib or cloth
2. Babies drool most when they are ...
a) cutting new teeth
b) wearing new socks
c) having a bath
d) learning to sing
Show answer
a) cutting new teeth
