Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
sialogogue .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek sialon, saliva + –agogue.]
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Examples
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Theological argument, when not enlivened by bigotry, is seldom worse than narcotic: but theological fun, when not covert heresy, is almost always sialagogue.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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Any acrid drug, as pyrethrum, held in the mouth acts as a sialagogue externally by stimulating the excretory ducts of the salivary glands; and the siliqua hirsuta applied externally to the parotid gland, and even hard substances in the ear, are said to have the same effect.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
ambyellen commented on the word sialagogue
my boyfriend is a sexy sialagogue
May 23, 2009
seanahan commented on the word sialagogue
It means to make one salivate.
May 26, 2009