drivelling
English edit
Verb edit
drivelling
- present participle and gerund of drivel
Noun edit
drivelling (plural drivellings)
- Foolish talk.
- the drivellings of an idiot
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXXIV, in Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VIII:
- He continued his chat with Sir James about the poachers until they were all seated, and Mrs. Cadwallader, impatient of this drivelling, said— “I’m dying to know the sad news. The gamekeeper is not shot: that is settled. What is it, then?”