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▪ I. ˈdrivelling, -eling, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb drivel.
1. A running at the nose and mouth; slavering; concr. = slaver.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxvii. (1495) 284 Yf the dreuelynge of a woode hounde fallyth in to the water, it enfectyth the water. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 740 (R.) His eyen and mouth faire closed..without any driueling or spurging in any place of his body. 1822–34Good Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 407 The coryza or snuffling of old age, is precisely analogous to its ptyalism or drivelling.
2. = drivel n.2 2.
1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 62 As he betrayed a villanous drivelling in his tears, the Caliph turned his back. 1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 425 The miserable drivelings of the senate.
▪ II. ˈdrivelling, -eling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That drivels.
1. Slavering, dribbling.
1530Palsgr. 311/1 Drivelyng as a yonge chylde, baueux. 1552Huloet, Driuelynge harlot or queane, scraptia. c1611Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 179 Stooping as she goes, With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.
†b. transf. That flows or falls in drops. Obs.
1624Gee Foot out of Snare vii. 63 Those driueling droppes are they, which are kept in a siluer Image. 1804Naval Chron. XII. 473 Gusts of wind and drivelling sleet.
2. Characterized by or given to silly childish talk or weak action; idiotic.
c1460[see drivel v. 5]. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 95 This driueling Loue is like a great Naturall, that runs lolling vp and downe to hid his bable in a hole. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. v. Wks. 1856 I. 56 Can you paint me a driveling reeling song? 1728T. Sheridan Persius' Sat. i. (1739) 21 All this drivling Stuff without Sinews or Strength. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. iv. v. III. 222 Some driveling grecanised Mythologist. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets iv. (1870) 105 The mere drivelling effusions of his spleen and malice. 1864Knight Passages Wrkg. Life I. iii. 167 A drivelling idiot called a king.
†3. absol. or as n. A drab. Obs. rare.
1570Levins Manip. 135/47 A Driueling, scraptia.
Hence ˈdrivellingly adv.
1731Bailey, Drivelingly, sillily. 1820W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XCII. 62 The wording of the poetry..is often drivellingly diffuse. |
