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noun

variants or drivelling
Definition of drivelingnext
as in babbling

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driveling

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verb

variants or drivelling
present participle of drivel
1
as in spitting
to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth the panting dog driveled on my hand

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2
as in gibbering
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly he driveled on about his "distinguished" family for what seemed like hours

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for driveling
  1. babbling
  2. prattle
  3. sputtering
  4. drivel
  5. chatting
  6. jabber
Noun
  • Moore, even in her 90s, is quite the babbling brook — twinkly and self-possessed, a calm pathological narcissist, the kind of person who spins out her life like a novel, making stories she’s told a million times sound spontaneous.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Leon leaned down to inspect how the cement bags were holding up against the babbling water.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Definition of babbling
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of prattle
Verb
  • The Chinese economy is sputtering and the government is working on a stimulus package to boost the economy.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • With the Mets offense still sputtering and the bullpen taxed, Dodgers phenom Ohtani added insult to injury in the eighth inning.
    Jacob Lev, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of sputtering
Noun
  • Works like that one tend to be seen as religious experiences or spiritualist drivel.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Not even Dunst could elevate this slapdash slice of man-child drivel. 33.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Definition of drivel
Verb
  • The new system lets users ask questions about NASA’s satellite data in plain English, similar to chatting with a virtual assistant.
    Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • While chatting exclusively with PEOPLE, the actress, 38, opens up about her time starring in the popular CBS sitcom.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of chatting
Noun
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Definition of jabber
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