drivellingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

drivelling (複数形 drivellings)

1. Foolish talk.

   the drivellings of an idiot

   • 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXXIV, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, または IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book VIII (Sunset かつ Sunrise):

     He continued his chat with Sir James about the poachers until they were all seated, and Mrs. Cadwallader, impatient of this drivelling, said— “I’m dying to know the sad news. The gamekeeper is not shot: that is settled. What is it, then?”