Drivel vs Driveller - What's the difference?

drivel | driveller |

As nouns the difference between drivel and driveller

is that drivel is senseless talk; nonsense while driveller is someone who drivels.

As a verb drivel

is to have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.

drivel

English

Noun

(-)

senseless talk; nonsense

saliva, drool

(obsolete) A fool; an idiot.

(Sir Philip Sidney)

(obsolete) A servant; a drudge.

(Huloet)

Verb

To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.

To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.

To be weak or foolish; to dote.

This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.

(Dryden)

Synonyms

* To have saliva drip from the mouth : drool * To talk nonsense : See also .

References

driveller

English

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who drivels.

*{{quote-book, year=1841, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari. Vol. 1, July 31, 1841, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I can smash Shakspeare; I can prove Milton to be a driveller , or the contrary: but, for preference, take, as I have said, the abusive line. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1893, author=James Runciman, title=Side Lights, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Think of the men whom I may call book-eaters! Dr. Parr was a driveller ; Porson was a sort of learned pig who routed up truffles in the classic garden; poor Buckle became, through stress of books, a shallow thinker; Mezzofanti, with his sixty-four languages and dialects, was perilously like a fool; and more than one modern professor may be counted as nothing else but a vain, over-educated boor. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1859, author=W.D. [William Dool] Killen, title=The Ancient Church, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=[416:6] What intelligent Christian can believe that a minister, instructed by Paul or Peter, and filling one of the most important stations in the apostolic Church, was verily such an ignorant driveller ? }}

*{{quote-book, year=1874, author=John Lord, title=A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="All able men," adds Macaulay, "ridiculed him as a dunce, a driveller , a child who never knew his own mind an hour together; and yet he overreached them all." ] }}

*{{quote-book, year=1893, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And, to leave this miserable driveller without a pretence for his cowardice, the Prince asks it as a personal favour of me, forsooth, not to press my just and reasonable request at this moment. }}