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driveller

Driveler \Driv"el*er\, n. A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

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driveller

n. Someone who drivels.

WordNet
driveller
  1. n. someone whose talk is trivial drivel [syn: jabberer]

  2. a person who dribbles; "that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib" [syn: dribbler, slobberer, drooler]

Usage examples of "driveller".

Fielding and Dicky were uncomfortable, for these were not the sobs of a driveller or a drunkard.

If it lay in his power, he would have brought back haloes, and one of the first of the saintly to be fitted for such a distinction would have been poor old Ninian Hobbes, who was certainly a good man and had been a much better man, but who was now a driveller who could barely get through the Eucharist without prompting.

Much natural agreeableness and acuteness are likewise necessary in a Cynic (otherwise he becomes a mere driveller, and nothing else), that he may be able to give an answer readily and pertinently upon every occasion.