drivel

/ˈdrɪvəl/

Other forms: drivelling; driveling; drivelled; drivels; driveled

Drivel is useless, boring, nonsensical information. Your parents might think the articles in your favorite fashion magazine are drivel (but they'll change their tune when you become a famous designer).

Etymologists suspect drivel comes to us from the Old Norse word draf, meaning "malt dregs." This would make sense, given that drivel is usually talk or writing about as useless as dregs. If you don't prepare for an oral report, the unfortunate result may be that your teacher finds your disorganized ramblings to be pure drivel. Drivel also means to dribble saliva. If a friendly dog licks your hand, leaving it wet and gooey, you can assume he driveled on it.

Definitions of drivel

1. noun

   saliva spilling from the mouth
   synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber

   type of:

   saliva, spit, spittle

   a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
2. noun

   a worthless message
   synonyms: garbage

   types:

   buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot

   unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

   applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash

   nonsensical talk or writing

   pablum, pap

   worthless or oversimplified ideas

   bull

   obscene words for unacceptable behavior

   type of:

   content, message, subject matter, substance

   what a communication that is about something is about
3. verb

   let saliva drivel from the mouth
   synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber

   type of:

   salivate

   produce saliva