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drivels

drivels is the plural of drivel.

drivels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drivel.

Meaning of drivel

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
  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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Questions about drivels

What is drivels the plural of?
Drivels is the plural of drivel.

Words near drivels in the dictionary

  1. drivelling
  2. drivellingly
  3. drivellings
  4. drivellous
  5. drivelous
  6. drivels
  7. driven
  8. driven a coach and horses through
  9. driven a coach and six through
  10. driven a nail in someone's coffin
  11. driven a nail where it would go

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