垂すい涎ぜん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

avid desire; craving; envy

Strong, often envious longing for something desirable. Commonly used in the phrase 垂涎の的 (an object of envy/desire).

• 彼かれの新しん車しゃは同どう僚りょうたちの垂すい涎ぜんの的まとだ。

  His new car is the object of his colleagues' envy.

• 美び食しょく家かが垂すい涎ぜんするような料りょう理りが並ならんでいた。

  Dishes that would make any gourmet's mouth water were lined up.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

drooling; watering at the mouth

Original literal meaning; now mostly used in literary or figurative contexts. In everyday speech, よだれが出る or 涎が出る are more common for physical drooling.

• その料りょう理りの香かおりに思おもわず垂すい涎ぜんした。

  The aroma of the dish made me drool involuntarily.