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
Show, that within which passeth, 79. --, a driveller and a, 165.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
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 August von Kotzebue
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
