Nonsense; senseless talk.
“You pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.”
Saliva, drool.
He pauses as I wipe the drivel from his chin.
A servant; a drudge.
that foul aged drivel
To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
To have saliva drip from the mouth.
From Middle English dravel, dribil, a deverbal from drevelen, drivelen (Etymology 2).
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To move or travel slowly.
But that is a state of things, which must in time work its own cure. We cannot always go dribbling and drivelling along, government and people alike being the scoff of all onlookers.