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DRIVELER

Definition: DRIVELER

DRIVELER

Noun

1. A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DRIVELER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)


Synonyms within Context: DRIVELER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fool

Dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy.

Loquacity

Talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; Verb: rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite; gossip; (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DRIVELER

English words defined with "DRIVELER": Slaverer. (references)

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Modern Translation: DRIVELER

Language Translations for "DRIVELER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

njeri që flet dokrra (driveller). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαλιάρησ (slaver, slobberer, sputterer). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyálazó (slobbery). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivelerdray.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

слюнявый ребенок (driveller). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kreten (cretin, driveller, moron), glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit), balavo dete (driveller). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hablador (big-mouthed, bletherskate, chatty, communicant, demagogue, driveller, Gabby, gossip, gossipmonger, joker, talkative, talker, tattler). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saçmalayan kimse (bletherskite, driveller), boş konuşan kimse (driveller, gasbag). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DRIVELER

Derivations

Words beginning with "DRIVELER": drivelers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DRIVELER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-r-v"

-1 letter: deliver, deriver, redrive, relived, reviled, reviler.

-2 letters: delver, derive, drivel, driver, eviler, levied, levier, lieder, liever, reived, reiver, relied, relier, relive, revile, riever, veiled, veiler, verier.

-3 letters: delve, devel, devil, direr, diver, drier, drive, edile, eider, elder, elide, elver, erred, ervil, idler, lever, lieve, lived, liver, livre, reive, revel, rider, riled, rived, river.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-r-v"
 

+1 letter: deliverer, drivelers, redeliver.

 

+2 letters: deliverers, driverless, redelivers, redelivery, resilvered.

 

+3 letters: daredevilry, predelivery, redelivered, revalorized.

 

+4 letters: boulevardier, daredeviltry, redeliveries, redelivering.

 

+5 letters: boulevardiers, daredevilries, predeliveries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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