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drivel

/driv-uhl/US // ˈdrɪv əl //UK // (ˈdrɪvəl) //

胡说八道,胡言乱语,胡说,胡扯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
    • : childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    driv·eled, driv·el·ing or driv·elled, driv·el·ling.

    • : to let saliva flow from the mouth or mucus from the nose; slaver.
    • : to talk childishly or idiotically.
    • : Archaic. to issue like spittle.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    driv·eled, driv·el·ing or driv·elled, driv·el·ling.

    • : to utter childishly or idiotically.
    • : to waste foolishly.

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Examples

  • In modern times responding to such drivel somehow validates the claim.

  • Iggy's relatively mature response to this drug-addled drivel?

  • Netanyahu's meandering and uninspired drivel left many confused but I will attempt to summarize it.

  • Your most grating acquaintance could – and usually would – bombard you with reams of unoriginal drivel at the press of a key.

  • The film director has just co-written a revisionist history of the United States that is ideological drivel.

  • Is Christopher Nolan's Inception a masterpiece, drivel, too confusing?

  • But Canon Drivel's daughter did not deign to answer, she merely rang for prayers.

  • Had Teufelsdrockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon-meat?

  • If you have a heart, sooner or later you get into a state of drivel about somebody, who probably doesn't drivel about you.

  • It can't be worse than going about with you and listening while you crow and drivel about her, that's one comfort!

  • "Stow that drivel, cookie," growled a voice which I recognized as belonging to the older Fleming.

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