drivel
noun
saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
driveller
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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
As thou sayest, Sancho, thou art no driveller to be terrified by the flight of a bird, or at the presage of a drifting spar, and thou awakenest my curiosity to know more.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
His imagination was diseased, and he was himself always apprehensive of the calamity under which he became at last 'a driveller and a show.'
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
If Pepys had written his Diary for publication he would have been left to oblivion as a driveller.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
Show, that within which passeth, 79. --, a driveller and a, 165.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
