Definitions for drivel

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drivel driv·el

Spelling: [driv-uh l]

IPA: /ˈdrɪv əl/

Drivel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in drivel (deilrv).

Definitions for drivel

noun

1. saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
2. childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter childishly or idiotically.
2. to waste foolishly.

verb (used without object)

1. to let saliva flow from the mouth or mucus from the nose; slaver.
2. to talk childishly or idiotically.
3. Archaic. to issue like spittle.

Origin of drivel

before 1000; Middle English dryvelen, variant of drevelen, Old English dreflian; akin to draff

Examples for drivel

You didn't think I am really the sort of person who could write that—that drivel!

"You must consider the drivel we have just listened to as of some importance, then," I declared.

Five of the fellows read that drivel and decided to follow the suggestion.

For the moment, she had forgotten his use of the term: drivel.

VinnyB What's crazy, Ms. Brown, is why two respected journalists would waste their time on this drivel.

I'm willing to be decent about it, Tom, but I don't want to listen to drivel like that.

Is Christopher Nolan's Inception a masterpiece, drivel, too confusing?

All the drivel you got in the Union wont wash in practical politics.

She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus.

I suppose it would sound like drivel if I were to repeat it.