driveler

So common has it been in this country to caricature the black man, to represent him as a driveler in speech and a buffoon in action, that I am always loath to accept as his those many would-be-witty sayings which, too often, originating with others, have been attributed to him.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

And we swear to you, (under correction from the parish vestry, which is entitled to half-a-crown an oath,) that the circulating libraries would make a driveler of Seneca!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

The highest inspirations of poetry are resolvable into three ingredients: the rant of unregulated passion, the whining of exaggerated feeling, and the cant of factitious sentiment; and can therefore serve only to ripen a splendid lunatic like Alexander, a puling driveler like Werter, or a morbid dreamer like Wordsworth.

A Study of Poetry

Tell me WHERE, dolt! idiot! driveler! before I twist your neck for you! '

Vendetta: a story of one forgotten

To belong to a peace party was to be either a fanatic, an idiot, or a driveler.

North America

'And,' cried Macer, 'let your priests be but like Fronto, and the eyes of the blindest driveler of you all will be unsealed.

Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century

"Answer me as I put the questions, or this musket shall send you to keep the old driveler company: where is your pack?"

The Spy

— driv·el·er Listen to the pronunciation of driveler \-və-lər\ noun

"Madison gun owner Auric Gold said he often carries a handgun in a holster while walking in his east side neighborhood..."

We all thought she was going when Monckton married her; however, if he had not managed like a driveler, he might have broke her heart nine years ago.”

Cecilia

"Pooh! nonsense! fiddle-de-dee!" exclaimed the other traveler, testily; "do you think, old driveler, that a few hours of moderate weather could weaken, effectually, the ice of a river that has been hard frozen for a week?

The Rector of St. Mark's