Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To slobber; drool.
- v. To flow like spittle or saliva.
- v. To talk stupidly or childishly.
- v. To allow to flow from the mouth.
- v. To say (something) stupidly.
- n. Saliva flowing from the mouth.
- n. Stupid or senseless talk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
- n. Silly, unmeaning talk; inarticulate nonsense; senseless twaddle, like the talk of an idiot.
- n. A servant; a drudge; a slave.
Wiktionary
- n. senseless talk; nonsense
- n. saliva, drool
- v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
- v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
- v. To be weak or foolish; to dote
- n. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
- n. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
- n. A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
- n. A servant; a drudge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. saliva spilling from the mouth
- n. a worthless message
- v. let saliva drivel from the mouth
Etymologies
- Middle English drevelen, from Old English dreflian.
Examples
“Seriously, if this drivel is the best rhetoric Cheney can come up, then my opinion of Crist has just gone up.”
“I will consider your acknowledgment that 'drivel' is non-partisan brings our previous posts to a draw.”
“And byond that, this kind of drivel is what makes the hunting community look really, really bad and worse, weak.”
“Please, ....... just more fairytale drivel from the empty-headed rightwing of this country.”
“I'm so sick of the divisive drivel from the Republicans.”
Pawlenty: With trigger, Dems 'will shoot themselves in the foot'
“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.”
“USELESS drivel from a tired, bitter and disconnected old man. wycliffe”
“Otherwise, it was just normal run-of-the-mill offensive drivel from a text book Tory.”
“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.”
“This drivel is mind numbing .. .10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drivel’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 189 more...
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disinformation
words meaning bad or not real data
foo, gobbledygook, spin, blacklist, corrupt, fraudulent, debauched, nefarious, untrustworthy, spam, deranged, mental and 22 more...
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
suppurate, inveterate, douche, Constantinople, zyzygy, polyglot, serendipitous, vivisection, solypsis, conflagration, instupituous, fecundity and 52 more...
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From The Brothers Karamozov
I either liked the word usage or I didn't know the word.
supercilious, Anathema, Casuist, Incorrigible, decrepit, fanfaronade, axiom, muddleheaded, anthropophagie, callow, swaggar, opined and 8 more...
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Trash Talk
Words that indicate meaningless, confusing or deceptive talk.
white noise, blarney, pidgin, jabber, bullshit, yadda yadda yadda, mishmash, farrago, gobbledygook, yammer, drivel, jargon and 18 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 51 more...
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Nonsense
Synonyms of "nonsense"
tomfoolery, balderdash, poppycock, lalapalooza, hullabaloo, hodgepodge, gibberish, shenanigans, hootenanny, jabberwocky, gobbledygook, mummery and 15 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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legitimate boggle words
words that have been legitimately found while playing boggle. skipvia suggested making this into a public list, and thus became "legitimate boggle words". please contribute!
jmjarmstrong JM watched a program that was pure as the drivel show. Aug 25, 2011
bilby *drooooools* Sep 7, 2008
milosrdenstvi "At this B.'s intellect gives way, and he becomes simply drivelling."
Jerome K. Jerome, Diary of a Pilgrimage Aug 14, 2008
yarb 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 Pusillanimous drivel. frail poor me. Us all.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984 Jul 4, 2008
sonofgroucho See also drool. Dec 31, 2007