| Pronunciation: | | 'drivul
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| Matching Terms: | | drive, drive around, drive away, drive back, drive home, drive in, drive line, drive line system, drive off, drive out, drive up, drivebolt, drive-by shooting, drive-in, drive-lanes, driveler, driveller, driven, driven well, drivepipe, driver, driver ant, drivers, driver's licence, driver's license, driveshaft, driveway
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- [n] saliva spilling from the mouth
- [n] a worthless message
- [v] let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"
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| | Synonyms: | | dribble, dribble, drool, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, slobber |
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| | See Also: | | applesauce, bull, bullshit, buncombe, bunk, bunkum, chickenshit, codswallop, content, crap, dogshit, drool over, folderol, guff, hogwash, horseshit, Irish bull, message, pablum, pap, rot, rubbish, saliva, salivate, shit, slobber over, spit, spittle, subject matter, substance, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Driv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Driveled}or {Drivelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Driveling} or {Drivelling}.] [Cf. OE.
dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E.
drabble. Cf. {Drool}.]
1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth,
like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. [Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.]
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero;
driveling love. --Shak. Dryden.
\Driv"el\, n.
1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
4. A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] --Huloet.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, balls, baloney, be insane, be stupid, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, blatherskite, blither, blow, blunder away, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, burble, cast away, chatter, claptrap, consume, crap, dither, dote, double-talk, dribble, drool, expectorate, expectoration, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flummery, foam, folderol, fritter, froth, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, Greek, have a demon, hawk, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hooey, hot air, humbug, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, malarkey, maunder, mouth-watering, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, ptyalism, rage, ramble, rant, rattle, rave, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run amok, run mad, saliva, salivate, salivation, sialagogue, skimble-skamble, slabber, slaver, slobber, spew, spit, spittle, sputum, squander, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk nonsense, throw away, trash, trifle away, tripe, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, wander |
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