Sekirov Dictionary

drivel

/dɹɪv.əl/

verb 5
noun 4
forms 5

verb5

To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
•
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. — 1591
•
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. — 1865
•
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[.] — 1858
(no longer used) To have saliva drip from the mouth.

noun4

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Nonsense; senseless talk.
- “You pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.” — 1879
•
(rare) Saliva, drool.
- He pauses as I wipe the drivel from his chin. — 1997
•
(no longer used) 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 — 1587
•
(no longer used) A servant; a drudge.
- that foul aged drivel — 1596

forms

driveled · drivelled · driveling · drivelling · drivels

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