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Meanings of drivel in English

Portuguese
baba
Catalan
bava
Spanish
saliva

Saliva spilling from the mouth.

baba
Portuguese
babar
Catalan
degotar

Let saliva drivel from the mouth.

Related terms
babar
Portuguese
bobagem
Catalan
fotesa
Spanish
sandeces

A worthless message.

bobagem
Usage of drivel in English
1
The story was sentimental drivel, full of whimpering soft-heartedness and gushing egoism.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
2
What, I hear you cry, what drivel are you talking about now?
The Irish Times
3
It sounds like such drivel, but I have never wanted anything more.
The Irish Times
4
Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel.
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
5
How long he sat there, reeling off this drivel, he never knew.
The Ragged Edge
6
And please spare me the usual drivel about 'the needs of security,' Sharon.
Cauldron of Ghosts
7
Many lose their appetite for truth and come to the podium talking drivel.
The Guardian
8
That's when normal rules no longer apply, and any drivel can be printed.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
9
However the audience was treated to an hour-and-a-half of utter drivel.
The Irish Times
10
In that block of drivel you view the cause of my deepest misfortunes.
A Chair on the Boulevard
11
One by one, I worked through ten days of accumulated drivel.
Bones of the Lost
12
Undoubtedly the fatuous drivel of certain writers had influenced even the Army itself.
No Man's Land
13
Assuredly they are not-inutter stolidity of platitude and absolute impotence of drivel.
The Age of Shakespeare
14
Most folk pass it off as drivel, but you've seen Caim.
Shadow's son
15
They could probably keep this drivel up for hours on end.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
16
Four hours a day is stamped all over the slack drivel they publish.
Jaffery
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Drivel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common