drivel

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Nonsense

   Nonsense; senseless talk.

   • “You pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.”
   • But what drivel I am writing! It is just an attempt to pass the weary time.
2. 2

   Saliva, drool.

   • He pauses as I wipe the drivel from his chin.
   • He wiped drivel from his chin with a stubby forearm.
   • She wipes some drivel from his chin with a Kleenex, which she throws away in the bin, then sits and clasps his hand in hers.
3. 3

   To talk nonsense

   To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.

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   1. 4

      To have saliva drip from the mouth.

   2. 5

      To be weak or foolish

      To be weak or foolish; to dote.

      • This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
      • driveling dotard
   3. 6

      A servant

      A servant; a drudge.

      • that foul aged drivel
   4. 7

      A fool

      A fool; an idiot.

      • if thou didst know what a life I lead with that drivel, it would make thee even of pity receive me into thy only comfort
   5. 8

      To move or travel slowly.

      • But that is a state of things, which must in time work its own cure. We cannot always go dribbling and drivelling along, government and people alike being the scoff of all onlookers.
      • There was a good deal of bustle and life at the inn; but three or four inebriates drivelling about the premises were 'suffering a recovery,' from the excitement of the previous night's entertainment.
      • Walter was as silly as most men are when in love. He went drivelling off in pursuit of her "dear little work-worn hands"[.]
   6. 9

      To use up or to be used up.

      • Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]

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