Definitions for drivels

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drivels driv·el

Spelling: [driv-uh l]

IPA: /ˈdrɪv əl/

Drivels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in drivels (deilrsv).

Definitions for drivels

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 drivels

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

Examples for drivels

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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