"driveller" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From drivel + -er.",
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        {
          "ref": "1841, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari. Vol. 1, July 31, 1841:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, James Runciman, Side Lights:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1859, W.D. [William Dool] Killen, The Ancient Church:",
          "text": "[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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1874, John Lord, A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon:",
          "text": "\"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.\" ]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Someone who drivels."
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          "ref": "1976, Richard Boston, Beer and skittles, page 156:",
          "text": "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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The pole used to launch the beer-soaked cloth in the game of dwile flonking."
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          "launch"
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          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
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          "dwile flonking",
          "dwile flonking"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) The pole used to launch the beer-soaked cloth in the game of dwile flonking."
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "From drivel + -er.",
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          "ref": "1841, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari. Vol. 1, July 31, 1841:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, James Runciman, Side Lights:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, W.D. [William Dool] Killen, The Ancient Church:",
          "text": "[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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, John Lord, A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon:",
          "text": "\"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.\" ]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Someone who drivels."
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          "ref": "1976, Richard Boston, Beer and skittles, page 156:",
          "text": "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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        }
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        "(UK) The pole used to launch the beer-soaked cloth in the game of dwile flonking."
      ],
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