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Drivel   /drˈɪvəl/   Listen
verb
Drivel  v. i.  (past & past part. driveled or drivelled; pres. part. driveling or drivelling)  
1.
To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2.
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.


noun
Drivel  n.  
1.
Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
2.
Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
3.
A driveler; a fool; an idiot. (Obs.)
4.
A servant; a drudge. (Obs.)





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"Drivel" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Stow that drivel!" ordered Griffith. "What if you were a kid hobo? What are you now?—one of the best engineers in the country; one that's going to make the top in short order. I tell you, you're going to succeed. ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... good cousin—to talk much, unless some other pain hinder me, is to me little grief. A foolish old man is often as full of words as a woman. It is, you know, as some poets paint us, all the joy of an old fool's life to sit well and warm with a cup and a roasted crabapple, and drivel ...
— Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens • Thomas More
... to die?" sharply interrupted the general. "Why do you drivel? You know I detest beds and blankets. Drop it! Here, take this," and he gave him a sheet of crested paper folded in four, which was lying beside him. "Read it, please. Aloud! so that ...
— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne
... if it be my vice, My pleasure to displease—to love men hate me! Ah, friend of mine, believe me, I march better 'Neath the cross-fire of glances inimical! How droll the stains one sees on fine-laced doublets, From gall of envy, or the poltroon's drivel! —The enervating friendship which enfolds you Is like an open-laced Italian collar, Floating around your neck in woman's fashion; One is at ease thus,—but less proud the carriage! The forehead, free ...
— Cyrano de Bergerac • Edmond Rostand
... love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken! 5 What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel —Being—who? ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning


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