Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To slobber; drool.
- intransitive verb To flow like spittle or saliva.
- intransitive verb To talk stupidly or childishly.
- intransitive verb To allow to flow from the mouth.
- intransitive verb To say (something) stupidly.
- noun Saliva flowing from the mouth.
- noun Stupid or senseless talk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
- noun Silly, unmeaning talk; inarticulate nonsense; senseless twaddle, like the talk of an idiot.
- noun A servant; a drudge; a slave.
- To slaver; let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, an idiot, or a dotard.
- To be weak or foolish; talk weakly or foolishly; dote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
- intransitive verb To be weak or foolish; to dote
- noun Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
- noun Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
- noun obsolete A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
- noun obsolete A servant; a drudge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
senseless talk;nonsense - noun
saliva ,drool - noun obsolete A
fool ; anidiot . - noun obsolete A
servant ; adrudge . - verb To have
saliva drip from the mouth; todrool . - verb To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun saliva spilling from the mouth
- noun a worthless message
- verb let saliva drivel from the mouth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Seriously, if this drivel is the best rhetoric Cheney can come up, then my opinion of Crist has just gone up.
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I will consider your acknowledgment that 'drivel' is non-partisan brings our previous posts to a draw.
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And byond that, this kind of drivel is what makes the hunting community look really, really bad and worse, weak.
The Meat Not Eaten 2009
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And byond that, this kind of drivel is what makes the hunting community look really, really bad and worse, weak.
The Meat Not Eaten 2009
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USELESS drivel from a tired, bitter and disconnected old man. wycliffe
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Otherwise, it was just normal run-of-the-mill offensive drivel from a text book Tory.
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Please, ....... just more fairytale drivel from the empty-headed rightwing of this country.
SC Republican gov candidate jabs Sanford in announcement 2009
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You can call it drivel and you can make allegations of ulterior motives … but, maybe his bigger point is that many companies are indeed stuck in business models that worked yesterday and not today.
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I'm so sick of the divisive drivel from the Republicans.
Pawlenty: With trigger, Dems 'will shoot themselves in the foot' 2009
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He needs to apoligize to Nancy Pelosi too, and so does the rest of the Republican party for that matter, though I'm sure the Republicans will wait until Rush or O'Reilly gives them some spin drivel cover and they eat it up like the well trained Pavlov's dogs they are.
sonofgroucho commented on the word drivel
See also drool.
January 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word drivel
Poetry all weak lies, games. Epicurus, stupid lies, that there is nothing terrible in not living. Just to stay oh living, of, why can't I? Stupid childish helpless poor little frightened drivel.'>Pusillanimous drivel. frail poor me. Us all.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
July 4, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word drivel
"At this B.'s intellect gives way, and he becomes simply drivelling."
Jerome K. Jerome, Diary of a Pilgrimage
August 15, 2008
bilby commented on the word drivel
*drooooools*
September 7, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word drivel
JM watched a program that was pure as the drivel show.
August 26, 2011