- drivel
- v1. drool, drip saliva, slaver, slobber, slabber; sputter, splutter; snivel, sniffle.2. babble, gibber, Sl. gibber-jabber, jargon; twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, blether, Inf. blither, drool; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one's hat; ramble, maunder, meander, talk idly, Inf. gab, Sl. gas; jabber, prate, patter, gabble; clack, clatter, rattle, Sl. run off or on at the mouth; chatter, prattle, chipper, cackle; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, make small talk.3. fritter away, squander, idle away, fool away, waste; trifle, loiter, putter, dally, dilly-dally, Inf. lallygag, dawdle, pass time idly or frivolously; lavish, throw away, misspend, burn, Sl. blow, spend recklessly or extravagantly; scatter, dissipate, spill, lose; deplete, go or run through, consume, exhaust, run out of.n4. drool, drooling, dripping saliva, slaver, slavering, slobber, slobbering, slabber, slabbering; sputter, sputtering, splutter, spluttering; saliva, spit, spitting, spittle; sputum, mucus, Vulgar. snot; snivel, sniffle; runny or stuffed nose.5. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, Jabberwocky; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drool, drooling; rambling, maundering, meandering; jargon, Sl. jive, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S.Choctaw; hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, open sesame, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gobblede-gook, foolish humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; rubbish, Sl. tripe, refuse, Dial. culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; balderdash, hogwash, swill, Sl. horsefeathers.6. stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. Sl. tosh; fudge, foolishness, folly, rigmarole or rigamarole, amphigory; footle, Inf. malar-key, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. gas, Sl. hot air; jabber, prate, patter, gabble; clack, clatter, rattling, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, prattle, chippering, cackle; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.