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drivel

[ driv-uhl ]

noun

  1. saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
  2. childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle.


verb (used without object)

, driv·eled, driv·el·ing or (especially British) driv·elled, driv·el·ling.
  1. to let saliva flow from the mouth or mucus from the nose; slaver.
  2. to talk childishly or idiotically.
  3. Archaic. to issue like spittle.

verb (used with object)

, driv·eled, driv·el·ing or (especially British) driv·elled, driv·el·ling.
  1. to utter childishly or idiotically.
  2. to waste foolishly.

drivel

/ ˈdrɪvəl /

verb

  1. to allow (saliva) to flow from the mouth; dribble
  2. intr to speak foolishly or childishly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. foolish or senseless talk
  2. saliva flowing from the mouth; slaver
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈdriveller, noun
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Other Words From

  • drivel·er especially British, drivel·ler noun
  • drivel·ing·ly especially British, drivel·ling·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of drivel1

before 1000; Middle English dryvelen, variant of drevelen, Old English dreflian; akin to draff
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Word History and Origins

Origin of drivel1

Old English dreflian to slaver; see draff
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Example Sentences

In modern times responding to such drivel somehow validates the claim.

Iggy's relatively mature response to this drug-addled drivel?

Netanyahu's meandering and uninspired drivel left many confused but I will attempt to summarize it.

Your most grating acquaintance could – and usually would – bombard you with reams of unoriginal drivel at the press of a key.

The film director has just co-written a revisionist history of the United States that is ideological drivel.

Is Christopher Nolan's Inception a masterpiece, drivel, too confusing?

But Canon Drivel's daughter did not deign to answer, she merely rang for prayers.

Had Teufelsdrockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon-meat?

If you have a heart, sooner or later you get into a state of drivel about somebody, who probably doesn't drivel about you.

It can't be worse than going about with you and listening while you crow and drivel about her, that's one comfort!

"Stow that drivel, cookie," growled a voice which I recognized as belonging to the older Fleming.

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