The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drivel \Driv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Driveledor Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling.] [Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble. Cf. Drool.]
To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
[Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.] To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
--Shak. Dryden.
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n. Foolish talk. vb. (present participle of drivel English)
Usage examples of "driveling".
Had he found a mere driveling idiot, memory banks stripped, or was it some problem that he might solve, given time?
Well, we'll settle with your country for its munitions and its notes and its driveling talk about atrocities a little later, when we have finished up the Allies.
He was not going to be a driveling idiot, like Chris and some of the other men he knew.
When he slipped on some dry needles and slid ten feet down a lichened rock, he lay there with his suitcase clutched under him, a treasured thing, damning himself for his nonsensical driveling about Nature with a capital N and all the rest of it, back in Potomac.
In the morning we sit there listening to Frater Miklos spin long driveling skeins of senile gibberish, with maybe one intelligible sentence out of every six, and there’s Ned, like a six-year-old being told about Santa Claus, screwing up his face in excitement, sweating, chewing his nails, nodding, gulping it all down.
I dreamed that I reached the Summit — and there were the gods, all right, and they were loathsome twisted ghastly things, the most depraved of creatures, such bestial driveling monsters that they would make the Melted Ones look beautiful beside them.