Definition of DRIVEL

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 Word
drivel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drivel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

drivel: valid Words With Friends Word