DRIVELLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does driveller mean? 

• DRIVELLER (noun)
  The noun DRIVELLER has 2 senses:

1. someone whose talk is trivial drivel

2. a person who dribbles

  Familiarity information: DRIVELLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose talk is trivial drivel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

driveller; jabberer

Hypernyms ("driveller" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who dribbles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dribbler; driveller; drooler; slobberer

Context example:

that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib

Hypernyms ("driveller" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

drivel (let saliva drivel from the mouth)

 Context examples 

I went out of my senses immediately; became a mere driveller next day, on receipt of a little lace-edged sheet of note-paper, Favoured by papa.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)