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Definition of Drivel
1. Noun. A worthless message.
Generic synonyms: Content, Message, Subject Matter, Substance
Specialized synonyms: Buncombe, Bunk, Bunkum, Guff, Hogwash, Rot, Chickenshit, Applesauce, Codswallop, Folderol, Rubbish, Trash, Tripe, Trumpery, Wish-wash, Pablum, Pap
2. Verb. Let saliva drivel from the mouth. "The baby drooled"
Generic synonyms: Salivate
Derivative terms: Dribble, Dribbler, Driveller, Drool, Drooler, Slobber, Slobberer
Also: Drool Over, Slobber Over
3. Noun. Saliva spilling from the mouth.
Generic synonyms: Saliva, Spit, Spittle
Derivative terms: Dribble, Drool, Slobber
Definition of Drivel
1. v. i. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. n. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
Definition of Drivel
1. Noun. senseless talk; nonsense ¹
2. Noun. saliva, drool ¹
3. Verb. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool. ¹
4. Verb. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drivel
1. to let saliva flow from the mouth [v -ELED, -ELING, -ELS or -ELLED, -ELLING, -ELS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drivel
Literary usage of Drivel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"Refuse wool; a mop made of this material, or any coarse rubbing rag. East. (2) ».
To drivel. ... drivel ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"Bat when he spied her, his saint, he wip'd his greasy shoes, And clear'd the
drivel from his beard, and thus the shepherd woos: ' I hare, sweet wench, ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"Baver, to slaver or drivel. See Beaver. Fris. b'dbbe, the mouth. Perhaps the word
has once been a bib-cloth. Bice. An inferior blue, OE. asure-bice (Early ..."
4. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"saliva ; drivel, like that from the mouth of an infant ; (c. ... Fiji — cf.
wale, uselessly, idly; only; for nothing, gratis ; well, to drivel ..."
5. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by James Quay Howard (1876)
"... and Platform—Marion Speech of Hayes — Woodford— Grosvenor—Schurz—Inflation
drivel—Interest in the Contest—Honest Money Triumphant— Third Inaugural. ..."
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