Drivel

Definition: Drivel

Drivel

Noun

1. A worthless message.

2. Saliva spilling from the mouth.

Verb

1. Let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drivel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)

Synonyms: Drivel

Ejection

Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool.

Imbecility Folly

Trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble; (madness); play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around; take leave of one's senses (insanity); not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense.

Insanity

Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain).

Crosswords: Drivel

Books

• Pure Drivel (reference)

• Stories of the Old Duck Hunters and Other Drivel, (reference)

• Utta Drivel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Drivel (reference)

• Vapid Drivel (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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

Expression using "drivel": drivel away. Additional references.

Albanian

dokrra (balderdash, drool, flummery, footle, moonshine, poppycock), pallavra (drool, jiggery pokery, palaver, piffle), nxjerr jargë (drool), lëshoj jargët, jargë (drool, froth, slaver, slime, slobber, spittle), humbas kohën kot, gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), flas gjepura (blether). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلام فارغ (balderdash, bosh, bunk, empty talk, fiddle-faddle, idle talk, nonsense, poppycock, prattle, twaddle), ‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏لعاب سائل (drool), ‏تكلم بحماقة, ‏تصرف بطريقة صبيانية, ‏سال لعابه (dribble, drool, salivate, slaver, slime, slobber). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), глупаво държане (carryings on). (various references)

Chinese 

胡說 (talk nonsense). (various references)

Czech

voloviny, slintat (dribble, drool, salivate, slaver, slobber), nesmysly (absurdly, double dutch, moonshine, stuff and nonsense), mlít pantem, kecat (gas, piffle), blábol, žvanit nesmysly, žvásty. (various references)

Dutch

raaskallen (be delirious, twaddle), kolderen (be delirious, twaddle), bazelen (twaddle). (various references)

Esperanto

paroli sensence (twaddle). (various references)

Farsi 

گلیز (Drool, Slobber), ازدهن یابینی جاری شدن , اب دهان جاری ساختن , دری وری سخن گفتن . (various references)

Finnish

puhua puuta heinää (talk nonsense), puhua hölynpölyä (talk nonsence), höpsiä (talk nonsence). (various references)

French

dire n'importe quoi, radoter (drool), radotage, imbécillité, bêtise, agir d'une manière imbécile. (various references)

German

wischiwaschi (wishy washy), unsinn (absurdism, bull, flapdoodle, garbage, hooey, mischief, moonshine, nonsense, nonsenses, rubbish, shucks, tomfoolery), schwafeln (babble, blather, flannel, gas, rabbit on, ramble, to babble, twaddle, waffle), schwafelei (blathering, twaddle, waffle), schwätzerei (chatter, gossip, prattle, speechifying, talk), sabbern (blather, drool, salivate, slaver, slobber), sabberei (drooling, slobbering), geschwätz (bunk, flubdub, gab, gossip, gossiping, idle talk, jaw, palaver, prattle, rigmarole, tittle tattle), gefasel (meanderings, twaddle), faseln (gas, maunder, ramble, twaddle, waffle). (various references)

Greek 

σαλιαρίζω (drool, slaver, smooch, splutter, sputter), μωρολογώ (drool, fudge, piffle, prattle, twaddle), μωρολογία (babble, fudge, prattle, prittle prattle, rigmarole, twaddle), αερολογία (aerology). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"בר שטויות (blah blah, talk through ones hat, waffle), שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bunk, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery). (various references)

Hungarian

nyál (drool, gob, saliva, spit, spittle). (various references)

Indonesian

ruang kosong, berliur (slobbery). (various references)

Italian

sbavare (dribble, dribble down, dribble over, drool, smear, smudge), ciance (blether, prittle prattle). (various references)

Manx

roie stronney, roie shelley. (various references)

Pig Latin

iveldray.(various references)

Portuguese

babar-se (dribble, drool, foam, slaver, slobber), baba (dribble, foam, lather, mucus, saliva, slaver, slobber). (various references)

Romanian

trãncãnealã (babble, chit chat, clack, clatter, flippancy, gibber, rattle, rigmarole, tattle, yap), spune prostii (talk a lot of trash, talk nonsense, talk trash), sporovãi (chat, chatter, grind, jabber), scuipat (gob, slaver, slobber, spit, spittle), salivã (gob, saliva, slaver, slobber, spit, spittle), prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash, tripe), bâigui (ramble), aiura (ass about, ramble, rave, stray). (various references)

Russian 

нести чушь (talk nonsense), брехать (bark, lie, tell a lie, twaddle), брех, бессмыслица (nonsense), пороть чушь (talk bunkum). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

baljezganje (piffle), bale (slaver, slobber, snivel, snot). (various references)

Spanish

desatinar (twaddle). (various references)

Swedish

dregla (dribble, drool, salivate, slaver, slobber), dregel (saliva, slaver, slobber), dravel (mush). (various references)

Thai

น้ำลาย (drool, flob, mucoid, slobber), ปล่อยน้ำลายไหล (drool, slabber), คำพู�"ไร้สาระ. (various references)

Turkish

salyası akmak (dribble, drool, slaver, slobber), saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drool, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma sapan söz, burnu akmak (have the snuffles). (various references)

Ukrainian

слина (saliva, slaver, slobber, spittle, sputum, water), розпускати нюні (drool, slaver), верзти нісенітницю (drool), нісенітниця (applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blah, bosh, flam, flubdub, haver, jiggery pokery, nonsense, shucks, slaver, tommyrot). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nước dãi (saliva), lời nói ngốc ngếch, lời nói dại dột trẻ con. (various references)

Welsh

glafoerion (slobber), glafoerio (slobber). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drivel": driveled, driveler, drivelers, driveline, drivelines, driveling, drivelled, drivelling, drivels. (additional references)

Words ending with "drivel": bedrivel. (additional references)

Words containing "drivel": bedriveled, bedriveling, bedrivelled, bedrivelling, bedrivels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drivel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dariel, dhrivel, direl, dirkel, dival, divell, Dorival, drave, dravel, dreave, Dremel, dridel, driel, drif, driv, drived, drivelt, drivet, drivle, drivvel, drovel, druel, durafelt, prively. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: devil, diver, drive, ervil, idler, lived, liver, livre, riled, rived, viler.

-2 letters: deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, dive, evil, idle, ired, lied, lier, lire, live, ride, riel, rile, rive, veil, veld, vide, vied, vier, vile, virl.

-3 letters: del, dev, die, eld, ire, led, lei, lev, lid, lie, red, rei, rev, rid, vie.

-4 letters: de.

+1 letter: deliver, devilry, drivels, relived, reviled, rivaled.

+2 letters: bedrivel, coverlid, delivers, delivery, deprival, desilver, deviltry, divulger, drivable, driveled, driveler, evildoer, fervidly, frivoled, liveried, lovebird, overgild, overidle, overlaid, overmild, relieved, rivalled, silvered, slivered, variedly.

+3 letters: adverbial, bedrivels, coverlids, daredevil, delivered, deliverer, deprivals, derivable, desilvers, devilries, dissolver, diversely, divulgers, driveable, drivelers, driveline, driveling, drivelled, evildoers, frivolled, larvicide, lovebirds, overbuild, overgilds, overlived, overplaid, overplied, prevailed, reavailed, redeliver, replevied, shriveled, travailed, unrivaled, valorised, valorized, velarized, veridical, vitrioled, worldview.