drivel

Nonsense; senseless talk.countableuncountable

• “You pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.”
• But what drivel I am writing! It is just an attempt to pass the weary time.

Saliva, drool.countablerareuncountable

• He pauses as I wipe the drivel from his chin.
• He wiped drivel from his chin with a stubby forearm.

To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.

To have saliva drip from the mouth.archaicintransitive

To be weak or foolish; to dote.

• This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
• driveling dotard

A servant; a drudge.obsolete

• that foul aged drivel

A fool; an idiot.obsolete

• if thou didst know what a life I lead with that drivel, it would make thee even of pity receive me into thy only comfort

To move or travel slowly.obsolete

• But that is a state of things, which must in time work its own cure. We cannot always go dribbling and drivelling along, government and people alike being the scoff of all onlookers.
• There was a good deal of bustle and life at the inn; but three or four inebriates drivelling about the premises were 'suffering a recovery,' from the excitement of the previous night's entertainment.

To use up or to be used up.obsolete

• Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]