drivel
noun
saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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He had driveled along respectably so far, he thought, but he had the sentimental longings of years, starved of expression, culminating in his heart.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington