drevill

Noun (1)

drivel (countable and uncountable, plural drivels)

1. Nonsense; senseless talk.
   • “You pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.”1879, Henry James, chapter XVII, in Confidence, London: Chatto & Windus

   Synonyms:

   absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil

2. (rare) Saliva, drool.
   • He pauses as I wipe the drivel from his chin.1997, Mike Allen, “Super Shopper”, in Fresh from Mount Salvage, Elizabethtown, Ky.: Light Lines Press, →ISBN, page 122

Noun (2)

drivel (plural drivels)

1. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
   • that foul aged drivel1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
   • if thou didst know what a life I lead with that drivel, it would make thee even of pity receive me into thy only comforta. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...

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