driveller
driveller noun: someone who drivels.
Noun
driveller (plural drivellers)
- Someone who drivels.
- I can smash Shakspeare; I can prove Milton to be a driveller, or the contrary: but, for preference, take, as I have said, the abusive line.1841, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari. Vol. 1, July 31, 1841
- Think of the men whom I may call book-eaters! Dr. Parr was a driveller; Porson was a sort of learned pig who routed up truffles in the classic garden; poor Buckle became, through stress of books, a shallow thinker; Mezzofanti, with his sixty-four languages and dialects, was perilously like a fool...1893, James Runciman, Side Lights
- The pole used to launch the beer-soaked cloth in the game of dwile flonking.
- Well away from the centre of sanity is dwile flonking. In this game, or possibly sport, a circle of girters dances round a member of the opposing team who revolves in the opposite direction holding a driveller.1976, Richard Boston, Beer and skittles, page 156
driveller meaning in Tamil
driveller in Tamil
- வாய் நீர் வடியன்
Examples of driveller in a sentence
- "All able men," adds Macaulay, "ridiculed him as a dunce, a driveller, a child who never knew his own mind an hour together; and yet he overreached them all."1874, John Lord, A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon:
- And, to leave this miserable driveller without a pretence for his cowardice, the Prince asks it as a personal favour of me, forsooth, not to press my just and reasonable request at this moment.1893, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete:
Forms of driveller
| plural | drivellers |
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Origin of driveller
From drivel + -er.
Questions about driveller
- What does driveller mean?
- Driveller means someone who drivels.
- What is driveller in Tamil?
- Driveller in Tamil is வாய் நீர் வடியன். See Driveller meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use driveller in a sentence?
- "All able men," adds Macaulay, "ridiculed him as a dunce, a driveller, a child who never knew his own mind an hour together; and yet he overreached them all."
- What part of speech is driveller?
- Driveller is a noun.
- What is the plural of driveller?
- The plural of driveller is drivellers.
Words near driveller in the dictionary
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