Drooliest

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Characterized by excessive salivation due to eagerness or hunger
2. exhibiting a very appealing or tantalizing quality that incites desire
3. having a distinctly moist or dripping appearance that suggests deliciousness

Etymology: "Drooliest" is simply the superlative of "drooly," which is "drool" with the adjective-forming suffix "-y" attached, so "drool" is the real story here. The suffix comes from Old English "-iġ," a word-forming ending meaning "full of" or "having the quality of," which over the centuries shrank to the "-y" we see today. The base word "drool" has a Germanic ancestry that traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root, but its path into modern English is the more useful thing to follow. Its meaning has stayed close to its physical origin: the slow spilling of saliva from the mouth. "Drooly" and its superlative take that same bodily image and push it into a comparison, so something can be more or most drooling than something else.

Synonyms: most slobbery, most salivating

Antonyms: least slobbery