(v. i.) To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
(v. i.) To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
(n.) Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
(n.) Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
(n.) A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
(n.) A servant; a drudge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 2010 manifesto , which Farage has called "drivel", called for taxi drivers to be required to wear uniforms, dress codes for the theatre and for the Circle line on London's underground to be made a circle again.
(2) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
(3) Suzanne Evans, the party policy chief, confirmed the U-turn as she set out how the manifesto would be a much more serious document than the 2010 one, which was later dismissed by Farage as nonsense and drivel.
(4) The authors compared nine manic patients exhibiting formal thought disorders (tangentiality, neologisms, drivelling, private use of words, and paraphasias) with 102 manic patients without these thought disorders and with 31 schizophrenic patients.
(5) Nigel Farage rightly dismissed Ukip's 2010 election manifesto as total drivel, then tried to distance himself from such nonsense as bringing in uniforms for taxi drivers, until it emerged he'd written the foreword.
(6) In 51 years working in the City of London rarely have I heard such drivel spoken by senior politicians, trade union leaders and fully paid-up members of the bleeding-heart club over the valuation of the Royal Mail's flotation .
(7) They are bolstered by nonsense economics and spun out by thinktanks endowed for the specific purpose of mainstreaming drivel through relentless repetition.
(8) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
(9) Who needs a programme in which no one believes, even one that its leader thinks is drivel, when preaching the language of betrayal brings a warm glow of recognition to a swath of the electorate.
(10) Despite sitting for 50 hours of taped interviews – scarcely credible, I know, given the drivel that follows – Julian decided there was no point in making himself look like an unstable, megalomaniac dickhead as his entire advance had been pocketed by his lawyers.
(11) By applying an intelligence-led model and working with our partner agencies across the border continuum,” this Matrix-induced drivel goes on, “we deliver effective border control over who and what has the right to enter or exit, and under what conditions.” Other than the weird licence such words give to find and punish evil, well, anywhere – hot spots of global people smuggling such as Flinders Lane, my pub, your cafe – the last two clauses, eerily echo John Howard’s infamous 2001 speech in which he declared: “But we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.” Only now, it seems they seem to want to decide a whole lot more about us all.
(12) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
(13) Daniel Taylor The hour before every England match when Arsenal's pitch-announcer, Paul Burrell, subjected us to all that boneheaded drivel – "think of 1966" and "are we ready?"
(14) Last week Farage had to confess that the party's 2010 manifesto was "drivel" , with its pledges to repaint trains in traditional colours, to bring back "proper dress" at the theatre and to investigate discrimination against white people at the BBC.
(15) Nigel Farage disowned it (“drivel”) and the man who wrote it has long since rejoined the Tory party.
(16) So much of Wolf's work is utter drivel – and I say this as someone in possession of the sacred feminine "force".
(17) On the idiocy, waste and vacuous drivel that constitutes “the case for Trident”, he has been right.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nigel Farage's attempt to distance himself from the "drivel" and "nonsense" in Ukip's policy documents at the last election was undermined on Friday after it emerged he wrote the foreword to the party's manifesto and helped to launch it at an event in London.
(19) The series of general frequency shows: driveling 67.9%, desultory thinking 57.3%, withdrawal, broadcasting, insertion 32.7%, loosening of association, gaps, derailment 28.9%, blocking 16.5%, transitoriness, movielike thinking, double-sense thinking 12.0%.
(20) Everyone can see it for the climate denier drivel it is.
Rhubarb
Definition:
(n.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.
(n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.
(n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
(2) From lettuce and string beans quercetin was isolated (after chemical hydrolysis) and in rhubarb emodin, an anthraquinon, was detected.
(3) Proanthocyanidins (dimers and oligomers of polyhydroxy-flavan-3-ols) were only found in the testa of broad beans, beans, and peas with coloured flowers, and in rhubarb stalks.
(4) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(5) The results suggested that: (1) the virus may be one of pathogenetic factor of the hemorrhagic pancreatitis; (2) the rhubarb was effective in the treatment of hemorrhagic pancreatitis under our experimental conditions.
(6) An earlier version of the rhubarb self-saucing pudding failed to add the milk in the listed ingredients and how and when to do it.
(7) As soon as it has melted, add the rhubarb and cook over a low heat until just tender.
(8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
(9) The custard base and rhubarb can cook at the same time.
(10) The first group included beef and fish broths, boiled meat, rye bread, cabbage, tomato, apple, cherry and black currant juices, rhubarb infusion, fresh kefir, carrot and pumpkin purees.
(11) Recipe supplied by Bronte Aurell, Scandi Kitchen, scandikitchen.co.uk Vanilla-fried rhubarb on sugar brioche Almost like jam on toast, the rich sugary brioche is a good backdrop to the sharp rhubarb.
(13) 9 Spread the meringue over the rhubarb, using the back of a spoon to create some peaks and swirls and place in the hot oven for 15-20 minutes or until the meringue topping is golden brown.
(14) Burr, 38, who also holds a first-class degree in biodiversity and conservation from London’s Birkbeck College, has been heralded as the favourite to win not least because he has been named star baker a record five times, particularly impressing Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood in doughnut week with his rhubarb and custard zeppole.
(15) In the main study the foods were either (a) divided into the calculated bite-size normal portions or (b) the portions were mashed (rhubarb pie), untreated (rice) or finely ground (raw carrot).
(16) The above description indicate that Rhubarb could promote immune response.
(17) One guest said the food – smoked rainbow trout, pan-fried guinea fowl, rhubarb and elderflower tart – wasn't memorable.
(18) Among several hydroxylated metabolites of emodin, a fungal anthraquinone and constituent of rhubarb, 2-hydroxyemodin was a direct-acting mutagen showing a large electron-spin resonance (ESR) signal in the presence of DNA, especially at alkaline pH.
(19) 4 Spread the rhubarb into the base of the prepared dish and spoon the batter on top.
(20) Once it has started to colour, divide between four plates, then top with the rhubarb and butter.