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Define Drivelling at Dictionary.com www.dictionary.com/browse/drivelling "I can only say, once more, I'm as innocent as the drivelling snow," repeated Leander ... drivel. v. Old English dreflian "to dribble or run at the nose, slobber," from ... he's wrong, snow doesn't drivel , he means drizzle. drizzle (v.) Dictionary.com. 1540s, perhaps an alteration of drysning "a falling of dew" (c. 1400), from Old English -drysnian, related to dreosan "to fall," from PIE root *dhreu- (see drip (v.)). Or perhaps Middle English dresen "to fall," from Old English dreosan. Related: Drizzled; drizzling. As a noun, from 1550s. actually it's trivia and we understand the Snowy has snow. and mountains.
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