DRIVELING


Meaning of DRIVELING in English

adjective

or drivelling

Etymology: Middle English drivelinge talking stupidly, from drivelen to let saliva drip from the mouth, talk stupidly + -inge, -ing -ing

1. : feeble like an infant in thought or action

reduced to a driveling idiot

2. : inane in an infantile or feebleminded way

a driveling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture — Ezra Pound

• driv·el·ing·ly or driv·el·ling·ly adverb

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.