Meaning of driveller | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who drivels.
2. The pole used to launch the beer-soaked cloth in the game of dwile flonking.
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Examples

“I can smash Shakspeare; I can prove⟳ Milton to be a driveller, or the contrary: but, for preference, take⟳, as I have⟳ said, the abusive line.”

“Think⟳ of the men whom I may call⟳ book-eaters! Dr. Parr was a driveller; Porson was a sort⟳ of learned pig who routed up truffles in the classic garden; poor Buckle became, through stress⟳ of books, a shallow thinker; Mezzofanti, with his sixty-four languages and dialects, was perilously like⟳ a fool; and more than one modern professor may be counted as nothing else but a vain, over-educated boor.”

“[416:6] What intelligent Christian can believe⟳ that a minister, instructed by Paul or Peter, and filling one of the most important stations in the apostolic Church, was verily such an ignorant driveller?”

“"All able men," adds Macaulay, "ridiculed him as a dunce, a driveller, a child who never knew his own⟳ mind⟳ an hour together; and yet he overreached them all."”

“And, to leave⟳ this miserable driveller without a pretence for his cowardice, the Prince asks it as a personal favour of me, forsooth, not to press⟳ my just and reasonable request⟳ at this moment.”

“Well away from the centre of sanity is dwile flonking. In this game, or possibly sport, a circle of girters dances round a member of the opposing team who revolves in the opposite direction holding a driveller.”

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