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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : driv-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɪv əl



Definition of drivel

Origin :
  • Old English dreflian "to dribble or run at the nose, slobber," from Proto-Germanic *drablojanan, from PIE *dher- "to make muddy." Meaning "to speak nonsense" is mid-14c. Related: Driveling, drivelling.
  • noun foolish talk
  • verb talk foolishly
  • verb drool
Example sentences :
  • I'm willing to be decent about it, Tom, but I don't want to listen to drivel like that.
  • Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • All the drivel you got in the Union wont wash in practical politics.
  • Extract from : « John Brown » by Captain R. W. Campbell
  • Five of the fellows read that drivel and decided to follow the suggestion.
  • Extract from : « Quarter-Back Bates » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • For the moment, she had forgotten his use of the term: drivel.
  • Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern
  • She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • I suppose it would sound like drivel if I were to repeat it.
  • Extract from : « That Mother-in-Law of Mine » by Anonymous
  • "You must consider the drivel we have just listened to as of some importance, then," I declared.
  • Extract from : « One of My Sons » by Anna Katharine Green
  • You didn't think I am really the sort of person who could write that—that drivel!
  • Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various
  • Longman's talk about the lack of logic in life had seemed to him drivel.
  • Extract from : « Comrade Yetta » by Albert Edwards
  • Miss Challoner never wrote the drivel you dare to designate as letters.
  • Extract from : « Initials Only » by Anna Katharine Green

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