drivel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɹɪv.əl/    美 /dɹɪv.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Nonsense; senseless talk. countable,uncountable
    — “You pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.”
  2. A servant; a drudge. obsolete
    — that foul aged drivel
  3. Saliva, drool. countable,rare,uncountable
    — He pauses as I wipe the drivel from his chin.
  4. A fool; an idiot. obsolete
    — if thou didst know what a life I lead with that drivel, it would make thee even of pity receive me into thy only comfort
    The New Arcadia
动词 v.
  1. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
  2. To move or travel slowly. obsolete
    — But that is a state of things, which must in time work its own cure. We cannot always go dribbling and drivelling along, government and people alike being the scoff of all onlookers.
  3. To have saliva drip from the mouth. archaic,intransitive
  4. To use up or to be used up. obsolete
    — Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]
  5. 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.

词形变化

drivels plural drivels present,singular,third-person driveling US,participle,present drivelling UK,participle,present driveled US,participle,past driveled US,past drivelled UK,participle,past drivelled UK,past drivels plural drivels present,singular,third-person driveling US,participle,present drivelling UK,participle,present driveled US,participle,past driveled US,past drivelled UK,participle,past drivelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
drivelous bedrivel driveler driveller drivelingly drivellingly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dravel, dribil, a deverbal from drevelen, drivelen (Etymology 2).
词源 2
From Middle English drevelen, drivelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerebʰ- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).
词源 3
From Middle English drivel, probably from driven + -el, unless borrowed from an equivalent word in another West Germanic language. Compare Old Dutch drevel (“scullion”).
词源 4
Perhaps a blend of drive + dribble.
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