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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To slobber; drool.
  2. v. To flow like spittle or saliva.
  3. v. To talk stupidly or childishly.
  4. v. To allow to flow from the mouth.
  5. v. To say (something) stupidly.
  6. n. Saliva flowing from the mouth.
  7. n. Stupid or senseless talk.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To slaver; let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, an idiot, or a dotard.
  2. To be weak or foolish; talk weakly or foolishly; dote.
  3. n. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
  4. n. Silly, unmeaning talk; inarticulate nonsense; senseless twaddle, like the talk of an idiot.
  5. n. A servant; a drudge; a slave.

Wiktionary

  1. n. senseless talk; nonsense
  2. n. saliva, drool
  3. n. obsolete A fool; an idiot.
  4. n. obsolete A servant; a drudge.
  5. v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
  6. v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
  2. v. To be weak or foolish; to dote
  3. n. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
  4. n. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
  5. n. obsolete A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
  6. n. obsolete A servant; a drudge.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. saliva spilling from the mouth
  2. n. a worthless message
  3. v. let saliva drivel from the mouth

Etymologies

  1. From Old English dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English drevelen, from Old English dreflian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. dote
  2. slaver
  1. babble
  2. driveler
  1. fool
  2. idiot
  1. servant
  2. drudge
  1. slobber
  2. utter
  1. nonsense
  2. drool

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. spit
  1. spittle
  1. saliva
  1. salivate

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. twaddle
  2. prattle
  3. gibberish
  1. chitchat
  2. nonsense
  3. jargon
  1. balderdash
  2. gabble
  3. diatribe
  1. bullshit
  2. flummery
  3. coquette
  1. crap
  2. poltroon
  3. babble
  1. drudgery
  2. platitude
  3. rubbish

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. civil
  1. shrivel
  1. swivel
  1. uncivil

reverse dictionary (20)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. drevil
  2. dribble
  3. drool
  4. dotage
  1. dote
  2. dotery
  3. maunder
  4. slaver
  1. blah
  2. drib
  3. flam
  4. goo
  1. slush
  2. slop
  3. slabber
  4. slobber
  1. driveller
  2. jabberer
  3. drivel
  4. slaveringly

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Words tagged ‘drivel’

  1. driveler

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  • 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

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