drivel
Plural: drivels
Noun
- a worthless message
- saliva spilling from the mouth
- Nonsense; senseless talk.
- Saliva, drool.
- A fool; an idiot.
- A servant; a drudge.
Verb
Verb Forms: driveled, drivelling, drivels, drivelled
- To talk foolishly; to let saliva flow from the mouth.
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
- To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
- To have saliva drip from the mouth.
- To be weak or foolish; to dote.
- To move or travel slowly.
- To use up or to be used up.
Examples
- The losing player began to drivel about unfair tile distribution, much to everyone’s annoyance.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English drivelen, drevelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerebʰ- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).
Synonyms
dribble, drool, garbage, slabber, slaver, slobber, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
Scrabble Score: 10
drivel: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddrivel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drivel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary