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driveller

noun

Etymology

From drivel + -er.

  1. derived from *dʰerebʰ-✻ — “cloudy, turbid; yeast”
  2. inherited from *drablijaną✻
  3. inherited from dreflian — “to drivel, slobber, slaver”
  4. inherited from drevelen,drivelen
  5. suffixed as driveller — “drivel + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who drivels.

    • I can smash Shakspeare; I can prove Milton to be a driveller, or the contrary: but, for preference, take, as I have said, the abusive line.
    • [416:6] What intelligent Christian can believe that a minister, instructed by Paul or Peter, and filling one of the most important stations in the apostolic Church, was verily such an ignorant driveller?

  2. The pole used to launch the beer-soaked cloth in the game of dwile flonking.

    • Well away from the centre of sanity is dwile flonking. In this game, or possibly sport, a circle of girters dances round a member of the opposing team who revolves in the opposite direction holding a driveller.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA