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 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
I weep when I note how she drivels; I sigh o'er her fake philanthropies; I am pained when I see how she frivols, Like a kitten, with serious topics.
From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Don Marquis
Pope, Jonson, Steevens and even Malone have made so many minute, technical changes in the Folio Plays of 1623, printed seven years after the death of Shakspere, that their presumptive elucidation often drivels into obscurity.
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
