Both Uses of
drivel
in
Oryx and Crake
- He feels a little paltry for having pawned Morgana's drivel off on the Crakers as cosmogony.†
p. 168.9
- He lacked the energy to work the crowd, he was fresh out of innocuous drivel; he loitered on the edges gnawing on a burned soydog and silently ripping apart everyone within eyesight.†
p. 249.8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(drivel as in: talking drivel) worthless talk or information
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, drivel may reference drool (saliva dribbled from the mouth).