driveller
- a word derived from drivel.
Example Sentences
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He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller."
From Time Magazine Archive
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First, I talk too much; then I talk too little; and if I talk a bit to myself, he calls me a driveller.
From The Stranger A Drama, in Five Acts by Kotzebue, August von
Read, man, read; don't stand glaring like a driveller.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
Swift, race not to the, 17. --expires, a driveller, 165.
From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John
Not but what a driveller may be a fair character for a play, but then he ought to drivel with some kind of consistency and likelihood.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various