salivating
Producing digestive fluid
Salivating is producing saliva, the watery fluid in the mouth that aids digestion.
Dogs salivate at the smell of food; so do hungry humans.
Figuratively, salivating means eagerly anticipating something desirable: Investors are salivating over the company's IPO, She was salivating at the thought of that promotion.
Saliva spilling from mouth
- slobberLet saliva dribble out
- spittleExpelled mouth secretion
- glandsSecreting organs
- reflexInvoluntary stimulus response
mouthwatering · moisture · secretion · slaver · spit · watering · salivary · juices
Extremely appealing to eat
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- hungeringIntensely desiring something
eagerness · anticipation · hankering · thirsting · aching · pining · tantalizing · tempting
drooling
Saliva spilling from mouth
reflex · mouthwatering · moisture · secretion · slaver · spit · watering · salivary · juices · oral
mouthwatering
Extremely appealing to eat
hungering · eagerness · anticipation · hankering · thirsting · aching · pining · tantalizing · tempting · enticing
ravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
peckish · voracious · taste · savor · palate · delicious · savory · aromatic · flavorful · tempting
coveting
Desiring what's another's
obsession · fixation · infatuation · wanting · itching · eyeing · fantasizing · pining · covetous · acquisitive
- mouth actionsbite, biting, chewing, chew, swallowing
- digestionstomach acid, swallowing, digesting, chewing, digestion
- body responsesfight, flight, shivering, freeze, goosebumps
- wettingwetting, dampening, moistening, soaking, drenching
salivatingrepulsed
Rejected with disgust
disgusted · nauseated · revolted · indifferent · uninterested