Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drivels; an idiot; a fool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
drivels .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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.
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Tell me WHERE, dolt! idiot! driveler! before I twist your neck for you! '
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To belong to a peace party was to be either a fanatic, an idiot, or a driveler.
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To belong to a peace party was to be either a fanatic, an idiot, or a driveler.
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'And,' cried Macer, 'let your priests be but like Fronto, and the eyes of the blindest driveler of you all will be unsealed.
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"Answer me as I put the questions, or this musket shall send you to keep the old driveler company: where is your pack?"
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— driv·el·er Listen to the pronunciation of driveler \-və-lər\ noun
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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.”
thedayhascome commented on the word driveler
/DRIV uh ler/ n · One who slavers; one who talks in an idiotic fashion.
August 7, 2008