driveling

Verb (1)

drivel (third-person singular simple present drivels, present participle (US) driveling or (UK) drivelling, simple past and past participle (US) driveled or (UK) drivelled)

1. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To have saliva drip from the mouth.

   Synonyms:

   drool

3. 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.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Verb (2)

drivel (third-person singular simple present drivels, present participle (US) driveling or (UK) drivelling, simple past and past participle (US) driveled or (UK) drivelled)

1. (obsolete) To move or travel slowly.
   • 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.1865 October 7, The Mercury, Hobart, page 2
2. (obsolete) To use up or to be used up.
   • Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]1858 August 17, The Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Beechworth, Vic, page 2

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