drivel
noun
saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
drivels
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present tense formof drivel (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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"I was just part of this greater thing, or place, or force, or energy," he drivels, like a semi-articulate hippy.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011
The dog that has genuine rabies grows sullen, it hides in comers, and it snaps at everything presented to it A sticky, frothy mucus drivels from its mouth and its eyes become red.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
He dilates his nostrils as much as possible; he drivels, saying to himself that there is enough there to last for a year, for ten years, for his whole life!
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
When charity drivels it ought to be turned off by justice!
From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
He wishes for 'a boat' to sail the deeps— Of ocean?—No, of air; and then he makes Another outcry for 'a little boat,' And drivels seas to set it well afloat.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
