drivelling
- present participle of drivel.
Example Sentences
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"What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!"
From Time Magazine Archive
It was mere drivelling nonsense that I talked out there in the shell-hole.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
“Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for weeks and weeks.”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
“Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward. ‘Go up alonger this drivelling sick man,’ he says to his wife, ‘and Magwitch, lend her a hand, will you?’
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
I had no idea you were in such a drivelling state as this, or I should have jawed you sooner.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
